Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Primrose Cottage

WRENN ID
standing-dormer-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Primrose Cottage, Groton, CO10 5ER
OS grid reference
TL 962 434
Coordinates
52.05435, 0.8604
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Primrose Cottage is a small timber-framed and plastered building, notable for its impressive ridge chimney stack featuring four circular shafts adorned with moulded spiral and lattice ornamentation, along with moulded caps. The roof is tiled, and the cottage has one storey with attics. It includes modern casement windows and a boarded door, as well as two gabled dormers on the front.

Local climate

Primrose 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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