Dormer Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Dormer Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-truss-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dormer Cottage, Stoke Holy Cross, NR14 8PF
- OS grid reference
- TG 225 026
- Coordinates
- 52.57609, 1.28344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dormer Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one house, dating from the 18th century. The building features a timber frame set on a brick plinth, with infill made of colourwashed wattle and daub and flint. It has a pantiled roof and consists of one storey with a dormer attic. There are two doorways, with the one on the right located beneath a pedimented 20th-century hood. The ground floor has three casement windows that were added in 1972. The gabled roof is adorned with five gabled dormers, also featuring 1972 casements. A ridge stack is positioned to the left of the center, while the right bay is constructed of 19th-century brick and has a partly external end stack. The rear of the building includes a continuous puts hut of brick beneath a catslide roof, along with one gabled dormer.
Inside, the timber framing consists of thin scantling and widely spaced studs. There is a large fireplace on the north side that includes a domed bread oven. The corners under the wall plate are supported by arched braces, and the roof structure features tie beams on arched braces, principals, two tiers of butt purlins, and collars.
Local climate
Dormer Cottage 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 88% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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