Wood Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A C19 Cottages. 1 related planning application.

Wood Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
iron-gable-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1981
Type
Cottages
Address
Wood Farm Cottages, 1 and 2, the Street, Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall
OS grid reference
TM 136 976
Coordinates
52.53439, 1.14853
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wood Farm Cottages, a pair of mid-19th century cottages, are constructed from plastered clay lump with a brick plinth. They feature a pantile roof with gabled ends and rise to two storeys. The cottages have four windows in total, with two 2-light casements on the first floor and two 3-light metal frame casements with shouldered arch lights on the ground floor. There are two plank doors, each with a gabled porch that has shaped bargeboards. A central brick chimney stack is present, and there is a lean-to at the rear.

Local climate

Wood Farm Cottages 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 86% 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 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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