The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
graven-forge-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, the Street, Little Waldingfield, CO10 0SY
OS grid reference
TL 925 455
Coordinates
52.07464, 0.80777
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered cottage located on The Street, Little Waldingfield. It is a single-storey building with attics. The windows are casement type. The roof is thatched, featuring a single dormer window and a central rectangular chimney stack.

Local climate

The 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
  • 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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