The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-kitchen-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Upper Street, Gissing
- OS grid reference
- TM 141 856
- Coordinates
- 52.42697, 1.14875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century. It has a timber frame and is plastered, with some remaining decorative pargetting on the east side. The roof is steep and gable-ended, covered with black glazed pantiles. The south end of the building is from the 16th century and features two storeys and an attic, with attic windows in the gable ends. There are three windows, which are 19th and 20th century casements with glazing bars, and a central two-panel door with a rectangular fanlight.
Inside, the roof has wind-braces, and there are chamfered ceiling beams. The northern part of the house is a 17th-century cross wing that has a jettied first floor supported by brackets and a jettied gable. The ground floor has a two-light sash window, while the first floor has three sash windows, all with glazing bars, and there is an attic lunette in the gable. A brick chimney stack is located at the junction of the two sections. The north room features an ovolo moulded ceiling beam. There is also a 18th or 19th-century wing to the south-west.
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 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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