Drayton House and Little Drayton is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1977. A C17 House. 6 related planning applications.
Drayton House and Little Drayton
- WRENN ID
- gentle-cupola-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Drayton House and Little Drayton, the Green, Pulham Market, IP21 4SU
- OS grid reference
- TM 197 861
- Coordinates
- 52.42889, 1.23113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drayton House and Little Drayton are a 17th-century/early building with roughcast timber framing and a steep, gable-ended tile roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic. The first floor has seven casement windows. The ground floor features three wood mullion and transom windows, two splayed bays with glazing bars (the left bay being modern), and an early 18th-century pedimented doorway to the left, which has a later roughcast porch in front of the original fielded-panel door. There are three gabled dormers with casement windows and glazing bars. Brick chimney stacks are present. A rear wing has a gable-ended pantile roof.
Local climate
Drayton House and Little Drayton 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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