Ansell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House.
Ansell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-keep-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ansell Cottage, Church Hill, Monks Eleigh
- OS grid reference
- TL 965 476
- Coordinates
- 52.09184, 0.86794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ansell Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered building located on Church Hill in Monks Eleigh. It features 18th-century external characteristics but may have origins that date back even earlier. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window range of casements with glazing bars. There is a central doorway, and the roof is tiled, topped with a large square chimney stack at the north end.
Local climate
Ansell 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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