The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-outpost-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Shelton Common, Shelton and Hardwick
- OS grid reference
- TM 236 899
- Coordinates
- 52.46188, 1.29137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th to 18th century cottage that has been rendered. It features a thatched roof with gabled ends and an off-centre rendered brick chimney stack. The building is one storey with an attic, which includes attic windows in the gable ends. There is a range of three windows, which are modern casements. A modern porch is located in front of the chimney stack, and there is a modern extension on the east end that has a pantile roof.
Local climate
The Cottage 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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