Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A C17-C18 Residential. 2 related planning applications.

Oak Cottage

WRENN ID
graven-span-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Residential
Address
Oak Cottage, Hitcham, IP7 7NT
OS grid reference
TL 987 530
Coordinates
52.13982, 0.90271
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Oak Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered building featuring a thatched roof. It has one storey and attics and has been renovated. The cottage includes casement windows and a gabled porch with lattice work. There are two gabled dormers on the front, and a ridge chimney stack with a hexagonal shaft.

Local climate

Oak 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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