Mergate Hall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1983. Cottage.

Mergate Hall Cottages

WRENN ID
brooding-quoin-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Mergate Hall Cottages, Mergate Lane, Bracon Ash
OS grid reference
TM 182 994
Coordinates
52.549, 1.21743
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mergate Hall Cottages is a pair of cottages that likely originated as a single Lobby-Entrance type farmhouse. They date from around 1700 and later. The cottages are constructed of rendered brick and clay lump, topped with a pantiled roof. They are single-storey with an attic and feature mainly 20th-century windows. There is one sloping dormer that has 18th or 19th-century casements with horizontal glazing bars. At the rear, there is a full-length lean-to. The cottages have an off-centre axial stack and a winding stair on either side. The roof is supported by butt-purlins. There is also a small adjoining block from the 19th century made of colour-washed brick. These cottages are included for their group value with Mergate Hall and "The Dower House."

Local climate

Mergate Hall 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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