The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. House.

The Old House

WRENN ID
quartered-lancet-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The Old House, Norwich Road, Stoke Holy Cross
OS grid reference
TG 234 010
Coordinates
52.56156, 1.29513
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Old House is an 18th-century house located on Norwich Road in Stoke Holy Cross. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and a thatched roof, set upon a brick and flint plinth. The south front was originally symmetrical and consists of one storey with a central two-storey gabled bay. This bay is lit by a 3-light casement window on the ground floor and a two-light Y window above, which is arched. There is a 3-light casement window from the 18th century on each side of the gabled bay, with the left window situated behind a 20th-century greenhouse. A 20th-century door provides access from the greenhouse into the house. The gabled roof is topped with two gault brick ridge stacks. The north front has outshuts of various later dates. Inside, the house features widely spaced studs, sunk quadrant bridging beams, and rebuilt fireplaces.

Local climate

The Old House 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 88% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. The Lodge Grade II 128 m
  2. Church of the Holy Cross Grade II* 310 m
  3. Swainthorpe Hall Grade II 564 m
  4. Stoke Mill House Grade II 812 m
  5. Stoke Mill Grade II 821 m
  6. Gostleyns Grade II 834 m
  7. Rummer Inn Grade II 1.3 km
  8. Church of St Remigius Grade II* 1.3 km
  9. Dunston Hall Grade II 1.3 km
  10. The End House Grade II 1.6 km