White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A C17 House.

White Cottage

WRENN ID
plain-finial-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
House
Address
White Cottage, Little St Mary'S, Long Melford, CO10 9LQ
OS grid reference
TL 862 451
Coordinates
52.07382, 0.71615
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on the west side of Little St Mary's in Long Melford. The building features a later lean-to addition with a pantiled roof at the north end of the front. It is two storeys tall and has a four-window range with casement windows. The entrance is through a boarded door. The roof is thatched, steeply pitched, and hipped at both the north and south ends, with a central chimney stack.

Local climate

White 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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