Wattle Cottage at Tg 2130 0308 C230m West-North-West of Mangreen Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Wattle Cottage at Tg 2130 0308 C230m West-North-West of Mangreen Hall
- WRENN ID
- other-cinder-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wattle Cottage at Tg 2130 0308 C230m West-North-West of Mangreen Hall, Swardeston, NR14 8DD
- OS grid reference
- TG 213 030
- Coordinates
- 52.58049, 1.26494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wattle Cottage is a house located approximately 230 meters west-north-west of Mangreen Hall. It dates from the early 16th century, with additions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is rendered and colourwashed over a timber frame and brick, with a pantile roof. It consists of 6½ bays arranged in 4 sections and is a single storey with an attic.
Bays 3 to 5½ form an early 16th-century timber-framed open hall that includes a smoke bay to the east. Bay 2 is an early 18th-century timber-framed cell, while bays 1 and 6 are of brick from the 19th century, with bay 1 being lower and set back from the front and rear.
The principal facade faces south and features wooden doors and casement windows from the mid-1980s. There is an off-centre axial stack to the left of bay 5 and five raking dormers across bays 2 to 6. Bay 1 has a two-light opening to the left and a stable door to the right, which is sheltered by a swept canopy. Bay 2 has a three-light opening to the left and a wide gabled part-glazed porch to the right. Bays 3 to 5 each have three-light openings, and bay 6 features a stable doorway under a swept canopy.
The left side of the building has a three-light opening on the ground floor and a two-light opening in the attic. The rear includes an outshut behind the smoke bay, a two-light opening at the back of bay 6, and several small inserted openings of two, three, and one light at the rear of bays 3 to 5.
Inside, the core of bays 3 to 5½ retains its 16th-century timber frame, with a 17th-century stack inserted in bay 3 and a new floor added. The former end wall to the north has an opening with two slim lozenge mullions and a central splat mullion, while the former south wall has an opening with an inserted frame. The bridging beam in the north cell (bays 3 and 4) has been renewed, and there is a reused 17th-century tie beam between bay 3 and the former smoke bay, featuring lambs tongue stops at the east end only. The roof has two tiers with clasped purlins and collars, 17-centimeter chamfered principal rafters, a renewed ridge piece, and some repositioned timbers.
Local climate
Wattle Cottage at Tg 2130 0308 C230m West-North-West of Mangreen Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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