Elmers Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Elmers Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-gargoyle-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Elmers Keepers Cottage, Howe Lane, Cockfield, IP30 0HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 911 550
- Coordinates
- 52.16056, 0.7936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elmers Keepers Cottage is an early 19th-century brick building, which has been painted, located on Howe Lane in Cockfield. It includes a smaller dwelling attached to the south and was originally used as the village school and the schoolmaster's house. The northern section features a tiled roof, while the southern section has a pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high, with the upper storey of the southern block being plastered and the ground storey constructed of flint. It has a two and three window arrangement of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. There are central doorways, one of which is topped with a gabled porch. The structure includes a ridge chimney stack and end stacks.
Local climate
Elmers Keepers Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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 — 6 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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