Dormers is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Dormers
- WRENN ID
- frozen-chamber-bittern
- 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
- Dormers, the Street, Topcroft, NR35 2BJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 266 920
- Coordinates
- 52.47947, 1.33614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 17th-century cottage located on the west side of The Street, Topcroft. It is a timber-frame building, now rendered, with a pantile roof. The cottage follows a three-cell lobby entrance plan. The facade presents four bays with a half-story, and has a rendered plinth. It features 20th-century casement windows, a 20th-century French window in the first bay, and a 20th-century porch in the third bay. Four gabled attic casements are visible. Axial and gable end stacks provide ventilation. A glass outshut extends from the rear. Inside, the timber frame is exposed. A blocked three-light window with ovolo moulding is found in the central room, alongside three similar blocked windows in the right-hand room. Further interior details include arched braces to the wall plate and a butt-purlin roof.
Local climate
Dormers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- 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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