Waveney Rising is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.

Waveney Rising

WRENN ID
tangled-rafter-sparrow
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
Waveney Rising, Fen Street, Bressingham
OS grid reference
TM 064 807
Coordinates
52.38578, 1.03273
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Waveney Rising is a 17th-century cottage featuring a plastered timber frame and a thatched roof with gabled ends. The building stands two storeys high and has two windows, which are small 2 and 3-light casements. A central glazed door provides the main entrance. At the south end, there is a lean-to and a brick chimney stack. The rear (east) side includes a gabled wing, also plastered, with a thatched roof and a brick chimney stack at the end.

Local climate

Waveney Rising 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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