Green Cottage Hillside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A Georgian Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Green Cottage Hillside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-vault-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Cottages
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Green Cottage Hillside Cottage, the Hill, Polstead, CO6 5AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 992 382
- Coordinates
- 52.00691, 0.90214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Green Cottage and Hillside Cottage are a range of three timber-framed and plastered cottages, built around 1723. They have thatched roofs and were restored at an unknown date. The cottages are one storey high with attics. They feature small casement windows with glazing bars and boarded doors. Three dormers are present, two of which are gabled with tiled roofs. Two ridge chimney stacks and an external stack at the north end are also visible. A modern plaque commemorates that Charles Cheston, a painter, lived at the property between 1939 and 1960.
Local climate
Green Cottage Hillside 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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