Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1983. Cottage.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-corridor-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Chapel Road, Morley
- OS grid reference
- TM 073 997
- Coordinates
- 52.55612, 1.058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 17th century. It features a rendered timber frame sitting on a masonry plinth, topped with a thatched roof. The building is one storey high with an attic. There are 20th-century windows that may be in the original openings, and a 20th-century thatched open porch. At the rear, there is a single dormer and a 20th-century flat-roofed extension.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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