Sunflower Cottage and Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 1 related planning application.
Sunflower Cottage and Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-flint-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sunflower Cottage and Lilac Cottage, High Street, Acton, CO10 0AJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 897 447
- Coordinates
- 52.06842, 0.76766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sunflower Cottage and Lilac Cottage are a pair of 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered houses located on High Street in Acton. Lilac Cottage features a later addition at the west end and has two storeys, along with a single storey extension at the east end. Both cottages have small casement windows, while Sunflower Cottage has 20th century casements. The roofs are tiled, and there is a large external chimney stack at the east end of the building.
Local climate
Sunflower Cottage and Lilac 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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