Bretts Manor is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 9 related planning applications.
Bretts Manor
- WRENN ID
- last-corridor-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bretts Manor, the Common, Wacton, NR15 2UP
- OS grid reference
- TM 184 906
- Coordinates
- 52.47035, 1.21459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bretts Manor is a late 14th century to early 15th century "Wealden" house featuring an open hall that is not floored, with a queen post roof supported by arched braces. The house has two storeyed bays at each end and is constructed with a plastered timber frame. It has a hipped thatched roof and a central hall that includes a large six-light mullion window. Each end of the house has two storeys with small three- and four-light mullion windows, which are replicas of the originals, except for one original four-light mullion window located at the rear. There is a doorway on the right side of the hall leading to a screens passage, which has a modern oak door and arch.
Inside, the original screen has been removed, but there are two shouldered arch doorways in the screens passage leading to the service room and the room above. There is a later lean-to structure on the west end and a large modern one-storey flat-roofed wing at the rear of the house.
Local climate
Bretts Manor 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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