Holly Tree 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.

Holly Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
solitary-clay-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Holly Tree Cottage, Bird Street, Hitcham, Ipswich, IP7 7LZ
OS grid reference
TM 007 529
Coordinates
52.13832, 0.93212
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holly Tree Cottage is a red brick building from the 18th to 19th century, featuring a thatched roof and possibly incorporating an earlier timber frame. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window range consisting of small casements and horizontal sliding sashes. The doors are boarded, and the south end of the cottage has a pantiled roof.

Local climate

Holly Tree 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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