Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. A C17 Cottage.

Manor Cottage

WRENN ID
lesser-pewter-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1991
Type
Cottage
Address
Manor Cottage, Church Road, Topcroft
OS grid reference
TM 265 930
Coordinates
52.48851, 1.33565
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one house, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with a refacing in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is partly covered in brick and partly rendered, with slate and pantile roofs. It has a two-cell plan with an additional third cell and an outshut at the rear. The facade has four bays; the left two bays are two storeys high and feature 19th-century brickwork and sash windows with vertical glazing bars. The ground floor has 19th-century shutters with decorated tops, a doorway with a flat hood, and a six-panel door with the top two panels glazed. There is a sash window and a small light on the first floor. The right two bays are one and a half storeys high, with a 19th-century casement window and a small light to the right. The shared gable stack has three lozenge-shaped shafts, with the left gable wall made of brick and the right gable wall bricked to the gable with a drip board. Inside, there is an ovolo moulded beam in the left ground floor room, with the timber frame revealed at the rear. The wall-plate has arch-braces, and the butt-purlin roof features arched wind braces. The right end has a coupled rafter roof and a complete timber frame.

Local climate

Manor 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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