Mrs Seal's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Mrs Seal's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-merlon-root
- 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
- Mrs Seal's Cottage, Hall Lane, Burston and Shimpling, IP21 4UH
- OS grid reference
- TM 155 831
- Coordinates
- 52.40345, 1.16776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century timber-frame cottage located on Burston Hall Lane, Shimpling. The timber frame is now plastered, and the cottage is covered by a steep pantile roof with gabled ends. A brick chimney stack is positioned off-centre. The main body of the cottage is one storey high, with an attic space. It features three small casement windows dating from the 19th or 20th centuries, along with three gabled dormers. A boarded door is present, along with a lean-to addition to the north side and a single-storey wing extending from the south side.
Local climate
Mrs Seal's 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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