By the Potash is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
By the Potash
- WRENN ID
- heavy-newel-twilight
- 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
- By the Potash, Potash Lane, Roydon, IP22 5SG
- OS grid reference
- TM 105 796
- Coordinates
- 52.374, 1.09161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
By The Potash is a 13th-century cottage constructed with a plastered timber frame. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and is one storey high with an attic. The attic windows are located in the gable ends. The cottage has two casement windows with glazing bars and two plank doors. A central brick chimney stack is present, and there is an outshut at the rear.
Local climate
By the Potash sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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