The Cottage and Higdons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage and Higdons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-steeple-tide
- 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 and Higdons Cottage, Mill Green, Burston, Burston and Shimpling, IP22 5TG
- OS grid reference
- TM 134 841
- Coordinates
- 52.41371, 1.13712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage and Higdons Cottage is a 17th-century house that has been divided into two separate dwellings. It features a timber-frame construction with a rendered exterior and a thatched roof with gabled ends. The building has an off-centre brick chimney stack and another external brick stack on the west end. It stands two storeys tall with an attic, which includes windows in the gable end. The façade has three widely spaced windows fitted with modern two-light casements. There is a modern gabled porch on the right side, positioned in front of the chimney stack, and a plank door located on the left. Additionally, there is a later single-storey lean-to on the east end.
Local climate
The Cottage and Higdons 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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