Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-brick-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fern Cottage, 122, West End, Costessey, NR8 5AN
- OS grid reference
- TG 165 117
- Coordinates
- 52.66036, 1.20001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is a late 19th-century cottage located on the north side of the road. It is built of red brick with colourwashed gault brick dressings. The cottage is two storeys high and two bays wide, featuring arched windows with two and three lights, each with a rectangular hood mould above. A doorway has a four-centred arch and a rectangular hood-mould; the original boarded door retains moulded cover-strips. The west gable has a crow-stepped design. 20th-century extensions have been added to the rear. The building is included on the heritage list solely for its group value in relation to No. 124.
Local climate
Fern Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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