Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. House.

Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
ruined-jade-auburn
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
Thatched Cottage, Rookery Lane, Topcroft
OS grid reference
TM 262 930
Coordinates
52.48829, 1.33173
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with later alterations. It has a rendered 19th-century brick exterior and retains some timber framing. The roof is thatched, and the building has a three-cell plan with a facade of four bays and one and a half storeys. The windows are 20th-century casements with shutters, and there is a 20th-century timber porch on the third bay. The roof features four eyebrow dormers and an off-centre axial stack, with the roof height changing in the right-hand bay.

Inside, during restoration in 1980, the right-hand bay was noted to have jowls remaining on the principal posts, arch braces to the cambered tie beam, and queen posts that are arch braced to the purlins. There is a five-light diamond mullion window in the gable wall, and a floor has been inserted. The adjacent bay is built as two storeys, with a tie beam set below the wall plate. It features arch braces from the jowled posts to the collar beam, a spur tie between the wall plate and arch braces, and queen posts to the collar beam.

Local climate

Thatched Cottage 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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