The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- sharp-fireplace-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Retreat, Hall Road, Tacolneston, NR16 1DN
- OS grid reference
- TM 138 951
- Coordinates
- 52.51252, 1.14994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century timber-frame cottage located on Tacolneston Hall Road. It is rendered externally and has a pantile roof with gabled ends. The cottage is one storey high, with an attic space containing two modern gabled dormers. There are two modern casement windows with leaded panes. A modern porch shelters the left-hand doorway. A 20th-century addition, also rendered and with a matching pantile roof, extends from the north end. Inside, the ceiling beam displays ovolo moulding with carved stops. The fireplace features a stopped and chamfered bressumer.
Local climate
The Retreat 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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 — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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