Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-quartz-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Lawshall
- OS grid reference
- TL 857 558
- Coordinates
- 52.16934, 0.71413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on Bury Road in Lawshall. The building has two storeys and features casement windows. At the south end, there is a 20th century porch that projects from the structure. The roof is thatched and includes a central chimney stack.
Local climate
Keepers 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 1997
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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