Upper Common Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.
Upper Common Cottages
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-latch-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Upper Common Cottages, Chelsworth, IP7 7HY
- OS grid reference
- TL 986 469
- Coordinates
- 52.08547, 0.89868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Common Cottages is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered building located at Chelsworth Common. It has modern extensions at both the north and south ends. The cottage is one storey high with attics and features small casement windows. The roof is thatched and includes two dormers along with a central chimney stack. The modern additions are topped with slate roofs.
Local climate
Upper Common Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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