Rushes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage.
Rushes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-ledge-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rushes Cottage, Kersey
- OS grid reference
- TM 008 447
- Coordinates
- 52.06454, 0.92819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rushes Cottage is a building that likely dates back to the 16th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a cross wing at the south end. The roof is tiled, though the tiles are modern. The cottage stands two storeys high, and the cross wing has a jettied front. The ground storey at the south end is faced with modern brick. Most of the windows are casement, with one double-hung sash window that includes glazing bars. There is a ridge chimney stack on the building.
Local climate
Rushes 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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