Floodgate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 3 related planning applications.
Floodgate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-ember-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Floodgate Cottage, 48, Bear Street, Nayland-With-Wissington, CO6 4HX
- OS grid reference
- TL 972 343
- Coordinates
- 51.97221, 0.87075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Floodgate Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed house located on Bear Street in Nayland with Wissington. The front of the cottage is plastered, while the east and west ends are weatherboarded. It has two storeys at the front and one storey with attics at the rear. The building features a four-window range with small horizontal sliding sashes that include glazing bars. There is one boarded door, which is topped by a shallow sloping hood supported by small brackets. The roof is covered with old tiles and has a central rectangular chimney stack. At the rear of the cottage, there are three gabled dormers.
Local climate
Floodgate 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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