Ashfords Grimbles General Store the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1959. General store. 2 related planning applications.

Ashfords Grimbles General Store the Cottage

WRENN ID
hidden-chamber-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1959
Type
General store
Address
Ashfords Grimbles General Store the Cottage, the Street, Long Stratton
OS grid reference
TM 197 927
Coordinates
52.48807, 1.23494
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage, Grimbles General Store, and Ashfords is a 17th-century building located on the east side of The Street in Long Stratton. It is timber-framed and now has a roughcast exterior. The building features a steeply pitched roof with gable ends covered in new tiles and stands two storeys tall. The first floor jetties out on curved brackets and includes six widely spaced three-light casement windows, with modern windows in the center.

On the ground floor, Ashfords has a small canted shop window with glazing bars, while Grimbles features a larger square bay shop window with glazing bars and a panelled door. The Cottage has a vertical boarded door with cover moulds and a three-light casement window. There are also two old brick chimney stacks present.

Local climate

Ashfords Grimbles General Store the Cottage 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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