Pair of Cottages One Occupied by Mr and Mrs Groves Immediately South of Lower Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Cottages.
Pair of Cottages One Occupied by Mr and Mrs Groves Immediately South of Lower Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rough-transept-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Pair of Cottages One Occupied by Mr and Mrs Groves Immediately South of Lower Cottages, Norwich Road, Long Stratton
- OS grid reference
- TM 199 935
- Coordinates
- 52.49552, 1.23911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of 17th century cottages, one of which is occupied by Mr and Mrs Groves, is located immediately south of the Lower Cottages on Norwich Road in Long Stratton. The cottages are plastered and feature a steeply pitched gable-ended pantile roof. They are one storey high with an attic and have two gabled dormers. The front facade includes two two-light casement windows with panelled shutters and two simple plank doors. A central brick chimney stack completes the structure.
Local climate
Pair of Cottages One Occupied by Mr and Mrs Groves Immediately South of Lower Cottages 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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