The Nook is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.
The Nook
- WRENN ID
- spare-postern-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Nook, the Street, Shelfanger
- OS grid reference
- TM 106 840
- Coordinates
- 52.41368, 1.09655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nook is a 17th or 18th century cottage located on the north-east side of The Street in Shelfanger. It features a timber-frame structure that is covered in stucco, with a black glazed pantile roof that has gabled ends. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and has two windows. The ground floor has modern casement windows, while there are two 19th century flat roof dormers with sash windows that include glazing bars and cornices. At the south-east end, there is an end brick chimney stack and a one-storey lean-to. The building is included for its group interest.
Local climate
The Nook sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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