Kings Cottage, Little St Marys Cottage, Archway Cottage and Oriole Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1961. House. 4 related planning applications.
Kings Cottage, Little St Marys Cottage, Archway Cottage and Oriole Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-mullion-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kings Cottage, Little St Marys Cottage, Archway Cottage and Oriole Cottage, Little St Mary'S, Long Melford, Sudbury, CO10 9HY
- OS grid reference
- TL 862 452
- Coordinates
- 52.07407, 0.71662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Cottage, together with Little St Marys Cottage, Archway Cottage, and Oriole Cottage, is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. It may incorporate an earlier structure. The house has cross wings at its north and south ends. The south wing was refronted in the 20th century, and the north wing has a 19th-century former shop window bay on the ground floor. It has two storeys and a 1:2:2 window arrangement, with mainly 18th-century double-hung sash windows, featuring glazing bars. 20th-century casement windows are present in the south wing. A Tudor arched passage, displaying exposed timber framing, is located at the south end of the main block. The roofs are tiled, with a moulded wooden eaves cornice to the main block and a central square chimney stack on the south cross wing. The building is of group value.
Local climate
Kings Cottage, Little St Marys Cottage, Archway Cottage and Oriole 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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