Breydon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. Cottage.
Breydon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-obsidian-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1991
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Breydon Cottage, the Street, Seething
- OS grid reference
- TM 318 971
- Coordinates
- 52.52315, 1.41685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Breydon Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is probably timber framed and has a pebbledash render with a thatched roof. The building features a three-cell lobby entrance type plan and has a facade of three bays, standing at one and a half storeys. There is a rendered plinth and 19th-century casement windows. The left-hand bay has a two-light window, followed by two windows with two and three lights respectively, with a 20th-century thatched porch situated between them. Additionally, there is one gabled dormer window and an off-centre axial stack.
Local climate
Breydon 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 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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