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

Rest Cottage

WRENN ID
mired-cobble-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
House
Address
Rest Cottage, Cockfield, IP30 0HB
OS grid reference
TL 913 550
Coordinates
52.16099, 0.79646
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Rest Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered building featuring a thatched roof. It has been renovated and consists of one storey with attics. The front has a two-window range of modern French casements and a central modern door. There is a central ridge chimney stack.

Local climate

Rest Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 2007
  • 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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