Windetts Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. House.
Windetts Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dusted-lime-fen
- 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
- Windetts Farm Cottages, 1 and 2, Seething Road, Kirstead
- OS grid reference
- TM 305 973
- Coordinates
- 52.52477, 1.39757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windett's Farm Cottages, originally a farmhouse, date back to the early 17th century and have undergone alterations in the 18th century and mid-20th century. The building is constructed of English bond red brick and features a gabled clay pantile roof with moulded kneelers at the copings. It has two 19th-century brick ridge stacks. The original layout is unclear, but it likely consisted of three units with a lobby entry, as the house was converted into a barn with a central threshing floor in the 18th century. The structure is two storeys high and has a six-window range on the first floor facing the garden, with mid-20th-century windows. There is an inserted 18th-century barn door at the centre and 20th-century windows at the rear. The gable ends feature chamfered architraves around blocked attic windows. Inside, there is a clasped-purlin roof with diminished principals and windbraces, along with intermediate collars that have birdmouth joints to the purlins. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Windetts Farm Cottages 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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