Church Farmhouse Colly Cott is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. House.
Church Farmhouse Colly Cott
- WRENN ID
- bitter-jade-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse Colly Cott, Church Road, Topcroft
- OS grid reference
- TM 265 930
- Coordinates
- 52.48808, 1.33492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse and Colly Cott is a house that has been converted into a pair of cottages, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. The building features rendered timber and a Belgian tile roof, with a four-cell lobby entrance type plan that has undergone significant alterations. The facade has one and a half storeys and displays irregular 20th-century window arrangements, including two 20th-century doors and two attic dormers. There is a central axial stack and two gable end stacks, along with a glazed porch at the rear.
Inside, the timber frame of heavy scantling is visible in the first-floor rooms of Church Farmhouse. The roof structure includes a butt-purlin roof with curved wind braces. The timber frame remains intact in Colly Cott, which also features a four-light window, originally unglazed, with chamfered mullions in the rear wall. The roof structure here is similarly a butt-purlin roof with curved wind braces.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse Colly Cott 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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