Holly Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 3 related planning applications.
Holly Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-belfry-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly Tree Cottage, Polstead Street, Stoke-By-Nayland, CO6 4SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 988 363
- Coordinates
- 51.99024, 0.89433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Tree Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on Polstead Street in Stoke-by-Nayland. The building has two storeys, with a single storey addition at the north end. It features a two-window range with casement windows. The central entrance is a six-panel door, where the upper four panels are glazed, framed by a moulded architrave and topped with a pediment supported by console brackets. The roofs are tiled, and there is a tall rectangular chimney stack at the north end. Additionally, a wing extends at the rear of the cottage.
Local climate
Holly Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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