Yaxley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1962. A C15-16 Cottage.
Yaxley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-doorway-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yaxley Cottage, 58, High Street, Lavenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 916 495
- Coordinates
- 52.11108, 0.79677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yaxley Cottage is a 15th to 16th century timber-framed and plastered building with a tiled roof, located on Lavenham High Street. It has been restored and renovated, featuring exposed timber-framing on the upper storey, which jetties out on curved brackets. The southern part of the building is two storeys high, while the northern part is single storey. The south section has a two-window range of modern casements with leaded lights, along with a blocked original window. The north section contains small leaded casements and a blocked original doorway. A large square chimney stack is situated between the north and south blocks.
Local climate
Yaxley 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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