Shape Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Cottage.
Shape Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-flue-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shape Cottage, Norwich Road, Dickleburgh and Rushall, IP21 4NR
- OS grid reference
- TM 168 824
- Coordinates
- 52.39739, 1.18612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shape Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building located at right angles to Norwich Road in Dickleburgh. The exterior is roughcast with a steep pantile roof featuring gable ends. The cottage has two storeys and an attic, forming a long range. The windows are all modern casements, and there are modern raised eaves at the far end from the road, along with a modern attic storey. The entrance features a pilastered doorway next to a window with a continuous cornice. The end of the building facing the road has an early 20th century shopfront with a cornice and modern casements above. Inside, the cottage has exposed timber-framing, although much of it has been altered.
Local climate
Shape Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% 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 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 17 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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