The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-rood-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1991
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- The Cottage, the Green, Howe, NR15 1HD
- OS grid reference
- TM 272 999
- Coordinates
- 52.54959, 1.34972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one dwelling, dating from the 16th or 17th century. The building features a rendered timber frame and brick construction with a thatched roof. It has a three-cell lobby entrance type plan and lean-tos at the gable ends. The facade is one and a half storeys high with irregular window placements. On the left side, there is a brick bay with a plank door that has a hood above it, followed by two leaded casements. There are also three-light leaded windows with two additional two-light leaded windows positioned low in the upper storey, along with another plank door with a hood. The roof includes two eyebrow dormers fitted with Gothic leaded casements. The building has an off-centre axial stack and an external gable end stack on the right side, which is part of the timber frame gable wall. The left gable wall is made of colour-washed brick. Inside, some timber framing is exposed, and there is a heavy chamfer with a broach stop on the transverse beam in the ground floor room. A five-light diamond mullion window is located at the rear, and the lintel of a window set low in the upper floor shows mortices for mullions. The interior also features one set of queen posts.
Local climate
The 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 91% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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