Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A Early Modern Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-courtyard-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Cheney's Lane, Tacolneston, NR16 1DB
- OS grid reference
- TM 142 942
- Coordinates
- 52.50443, 1.15531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a 17th century timber-frame cottage located on Cheney's Lane in Tacolneston. The building is plastered and features a thatched roof with gabled ends. It has an off-centre rendered brick chimney stack and consists of one storey with an attic, which includes attic windows in the gable ends. The cottage has modern casement windows with leaded panes.
Local climate
Oak 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- 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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