Chapel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House.
Chapel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-newel-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chapel Cottage, High Road, Wortwell
- OS grid reference
- TM 278 853
- Coordinates
- 52.41824, 1.34886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Cottage is a small 17th century timber-frame house that has been plastered. It features a steep plain tile roof with gabled ends and has an external brick chimney stack at each end. The house is two storeys high and has two windows. On the first floor, there is a small 4-light mullion window that has been altered, along with a 19th or 20th century casement window. The ground floor has modern casements and a modern plank door with a tiled hood above. Additionally, there is a modern lean-to on the south-west end of the building.
Local climate
Chapel Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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