Number 1 St James Plain (The Parish Cottages of Ye Olde Chequers) is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.

Number 1 St James Plain (The Parish Cottages of Ye Olde Chequers)

WRENN ID
scarred-bastion-jet
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
Number 1 St James Plain (The Parish Cottages of Ye Olde Chequers), Chequer Lane, Bressingham
OS grid reference
TM 075 808
Coordinates
52.38634, 1.04894
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 1 St James Plain, known as The Parish Cottages of Ye Olde Chequers, is a 17th century cottage. It features a plastered timber frame and a steep pantile roof with gabled ends. The building is two storeys high and has four windows, which are casements with glazing bars. There are two plank doors, one of which has a wooden trellis porch. An off-centre brick chimney stack is present, and there is an outshut at the rear.

Local climate

Number 1 St James Plain (The Parish Cottages of Ye Olde Chequers) 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 89% 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 57% 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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