Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-beam-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Upper Somerton
- OS grid reference
- TL 811 530
- Coordinates
- 52.1461, 0.64565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a 17th-century house that features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a brick base that dates from the 18th or 19th century. It stands two storeys high and has a four-window range, with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars. The roof is covered in slate, which was added in the 19th century, and there is a central chimney stack with a square shaft. Inside, the cottage showcases exposed timber-framing.
Local climate
Church Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
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