Maria Martens Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
Maria Martens Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-quoin-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Maria Martens Cottage, Martens Lane, Polstead, CO6 5AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 993 378
- Coordinates
- 52.00335, 0.90349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maria Martens Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered building with a thatched roof. It has been renovated and features one storey with attics. The cottage has small modern metal casement windows, with one gabled dormer on the south front and two on the north front. A central ridge chimney stack is present. Inside, there is an open fireplace that includes some early brickwork.
Local climate
Maria Martens 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 — 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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