The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A C17 House. 5 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-chalk-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Church Lane, Whatfield, IP7 6QR
- OS grid reference
- TM 025 466
- Coordinates
- 52.08079, 0.95454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th centuries. It is believed to have originally served as the priests’ house. The building is one storey high with attics, and has a thatched roof which is hipped at the north end. It features small casement windows, and a dormer window on the front. A ridge chimney stack is located at the north end. The building has been renovated.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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