Rivercroft Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1977. A C17 House. 5 related planning applications.
Rivercroft Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-wattle-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rivercroft Cottage, Beech Road, Wroxham, Broadland, NR12 8TP
- OS grid reference
- TG 306 174
- Coordinates
- 52.70583, 1.4122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rivercroft Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with later additions. A gable wall tie is dated 1670. The house is constructed of brick, flint, and rubble, with parts whitewashed. It has a steeply-pitched reed-thatched roof. The house is two storeys high with an irregular arrangement of windows, featuring 19th and 20th century casements. An entrance door and chimney stack are positioned off-centre. The west gable has a parapet. Two single-storey wings with pantiled roofs extend from the east side of the house.
Local climate
Rivercroft Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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