Cottage Occupied by Mrs Murphy is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A 18th century Cottage.
Cottage Occupied by Mrs Murphy
- WRENN ID
- final-ember-rowan
- 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
- Cottage Occupied by Mrs Murphy, the Street, Earsham
- OS grid reference
- TM 323 891
- Coordinates
- 52.45068, 1.41728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This 18th-century cottage, currently occupied by Mrs. Murphy, features a rendered timber-frame structure with a brick end wall. It has a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and an internal brick chimney stack at one end. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows, which are 19th-century 2 and 3-light casements. Inside, the cottage includes chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Cottage Occupied by Mrs Murphy 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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