A House with History

Built around 1850, at a time when the population of Britain was 16.6 million; the first Olympic games was conceived in Much Wenlock and a new rail link from Norwich to London was built, Phoenix House was rising out of the ground. This was also the time when a pure water pipe system was established in Norwich and William Wordsworth, the poet and Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister of England, both died; Starting it’s life as two farm worker cottages, it stayed that way until the 1970’s, when it was un-sympathetically turned into one property and named after the Phoenix Breck, an area of woodland and pasture close by.

In 2011 we bought the house and living in caravans, set about renovating and extending the property to the beautiful character house it is today. With a wealth of beams and huge inglenook fireplace, the house encompasses all the period charm of the mid 1800’s with 21st century energy saving insulation methods built into it’s fabric.