Cottage occupied by Mrs Newby is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Cottage occupied by Mrs Newby
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cottage occupied by Mrs Newby, Rouses Lane, Starston, IP20 9NU
- OS grid reference
- TM 239 845
- Coordinates
- 52.41298, 1.29101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a small early 13th century timber-frame cottage that has been plastered. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and a central brick chimney stack. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with two early 19th century three-light casement windows and a central boarded door. On the left side, there is a gabled dormer with shaped bargeboards and a finial, which also contains a 19th century three-light casement window. At the west end, there is a narrow gabled cross wing built in the mid-19th century, made of painted brick and two storeys high, with shaped bargeboards, a three-light casement window, and a boarded door.
Local climate
Cottage occupied by Mrs Newby sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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