Haywards Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House.
Haywards Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-groin-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Haywards Cottage, Dedham Road, Stratford St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TM 054 344
- Coordinates
- 51.97091, 0.98972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Haywards Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-16th century, with later alterations. It is timber-framed and has a lower section made of painted brick and rendered surfaces. The roof is covered with plain tiles and features red brick stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a central 20th-century doorway located beneath a gabled tiled porch. The windows are 20th-century casements. The roof is swept, and there are external gable-end stacks. At the rear, there is an extension with a pent roof.
Inside, the cottage features chamfered jowled posts, chamfered beams, and exposed joists. The rear wall displays diamond mortices. On the first floor, there are two trusses, a chamfered cambered tie beam with arch braces, and the bases of crown posts are visible, along with square posts that have braces to the purlin and collars. The roof has undergone alterations, including the insertion of purlins.
Local climate
Haywards 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
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