Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. Cottage.
Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-spire-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage, West End, Geldeston
- OS grid reference
- TM 385 921
- Coordinates
- 52.47516, 1.51081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage are a pair of cottages with medieval origins and later modifications. The cottages feature timber framing and are colourwashed at the west end, while the east end is encased in later red brick. They have a steeply-pitched pantile roof and consist of two storeys and one and a half storeys with a rectangular plan.
Chiverton's Cottage dates from the 17th century and has been restored in the mid-20th century. It has two storeys and features three-light casement windows from the 20th century, along with glazed doors on the ground floor. There are two surviving two-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows on the south side of the chimney stack, one of which is inscribed "R.G. 1618." Additionally, there is one blocked ovolo-moulded window at the first-floor level on the north wall. The beam supporting the first floor has stepped run-out chamfer stops, and there is a chimney stack at the east end.
Rush Fen Cottage has a red brick encasing over its timber frame, with the east gable rendered and colourwashed. It is one and a half storeys tall, with a roof that sweeps down to a low eaves line, making it wider than Chiverton's Cottage. The windows are generally 20th-century casements with segmental arches above the openings. There is a 20th-century gabled and weatherboarded dormer on the west side, and an off-centre axial chimney stack. The first floor at the east end contains two jowled principal posts that are octagonal in section below their expanded tops, featuring moulded capitals. There is a cambered tie between the posts, and trenches for passing braces can be seen in the jowled post and tie. The square-set aisle plates have straight braces to the principal posts. The aisle posts have been truncated due to the 16th-century insertion of the first floor and are supported on a tie beam with broach chamfer stops. This structure is a remnant of a 14th-century aisled building, which appears to be in situ.
Local climate
Rush Fen Cottage and Chiverton's Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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