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

Town Cottage

WRENN ID
sombre-wall-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
House
Address
Town Cottage, the Causeway, Hitcham
OS grid reference
TL 987 523
Coordinates
52.13347, 0.90317
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Town Cottage is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered building featuring a thatched roof and a central ridge chimney stack. It has one storey and attics, with a two-window range of small casements. The cottage includes a central gabled and thatched porch, as well as two dormers on the front.

Local climate

Town 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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