Barham Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1993. House. 1 related planning application.
Barham Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-nave-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barham Cottage, the Row, Hartest, IP29 4DL
- OS grid reference
- TL 832 521
- Coordinates
- 52.13741, 0.67594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barham Cottage is a small house dating to around the early 18th century, or possibly earlier. It is built with a timber frame and clay lump construction, rendered and plastered, and has a steeply pitched roof covered in asbestos tiles with gabled ends. A rendered stack is located at the gable end. The house originally comprised two rooms; the room on the right (south) side was heated by the gable-end stack, while the left room was unheated. Later additions include an outshut at the rear (east) and a porch on the right (south) end.
The west front, which has two windows, features 2-light casement windows with glazing bars, and attic windows are set within raking dormers. The right (south) end has a gabled porch with a plank door and an attic casement above in the gable. The north end has a casement window within the gable, above which is weatherboarding. A weatherboarded outshut extends to the rear (east).
Inside, the wall-plate, tie-beam, and waney ceiling beams are exposed, and the roof structure is ceiled. The fireplace in the south room has been blocked and replaced with a 20th-century fireplace. The house retains plank doors and a straight staircase rising from the left (north) room.
Local climate
Barham 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 80% 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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