The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1983. House. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
dim-paling-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1983
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, Church Hill, Saxlingham Nethergate, NR15 1TD
OS grid reference
TM 230 970
Coordinates
52.52594, 1.28603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a 17th-century building located on the south side of Church Hill in Saxlingham Nethergate. It features a rendered timber frame and a thatched roof. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and has varied window styles, including some 18th-century three-light windows with metal casements. There are three dormers on the east side, also with 18th-century casements. The building has an off-centre axial stack and a later gable-end stack.

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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