Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.

Rectory Cottage

WRENN ID
stranded-spandrel-ebony
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
Rectory Cottage, Dickleburgh Road, Burston and Shimpling
OS grid reference
TM 151 830
Coordinates
52.40288, 1.16183
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rectory Cottage is a 17th century timber-frame cottage that has been rendered. It features a large modern extension on the south end. The entire structure is covered with a continuous steeply pitched pantile roof with gabled ends. There is a large external brick chimney stack on the north end. The cottage is one storey with an attic, and it has modern casements and wide modern flat-roofed dormers. Additionally, there is a large flat-roofed extension at the rear.

Local climate

Rectory 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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