Wilderness Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Wilderness Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-rampart-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wilderness Cottage, Church Road, Wacton, NR15 2UG
- OS grid reference
- TM 177 918
- Coordinates
- 52.48145, 1.20539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wilderness Cottage is a 17th-century timber-frame house. It has been plastered and is covered with a steep pantile roof, with gable ends. A brick chimney stack is positioned off-centre. The house has two storeys and an attic, with a window in the gable end. There are five windows, which are 19th-century 2-light casements with glazing bars. A later lean-to porch is situated off-centre in front of the chimney stack.
Local climate
Wilderness 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 89% 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 65% 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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