Dandy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Dandy Cottage

WRENN ID
lunar-flue-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Dandy Cottage, Brent Eleigh Road, Lavenham, CO10 9PE
OS grid reference
TL 920 485
Coordinates
52.10163, 0.80313
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dandy Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage built from clay lump with a thatched roof. The southeast end of the cottage is covered in weatherboarding. It has two storeys and features a two-window range of modern casement windows. The eaves are swept up over the upper storey windows, and there is a central ridge chimney stack. The cottage has been renovated.

Local climate

Dandy 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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