Doric Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.
Doric Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-screen-juniper
- 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
- Doric Cottage, the Street, Shelfanger
- OS grid reference
- TM 107 839
- Coordinates
- 52.41333, 1.09692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doric Cottage is an 18th-century cottage featuring an early 19th-century red brick front. It has a black glazed pantile roof with gabled ends and is one storey high with an attic. The cottage has two ground floor sash windows with glazing bars and keyblocked heads. There are two late 19th-century gabled dormers with shaped barge boards, and a central glazed door. A brick lean-to is located at the north-west end, and there is a brick chimney stack at the rear. The cottage is included for its group interest.
Local climate
Doric 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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