Double Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.
Double Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-remnant-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Double Cottage, 78, Low Street, Wortwell
- OS grid reference
- TM 273 842
- Coordinates
- 52.40927, 1.34185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 78, known as Double Cottage, is a 17th or 18th century timber-frame cottage that has been encased in painted brick. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and has an internal brick chimney stack located near one end. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and includes one gabled dormer. The windows are 19th century casements, and inside, there is a stopped chamfered ceiling beam.
Local climate
Double Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 66% 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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