Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage.

Elm Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Elm Cottage, the Street, Lindsey
OS grid reference
TL 978 451
Coordinates
52.06898, 0.88505
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Cottage is a small 18th century timber-framed and plastered building, with the lower part faced in painted brick. It features a thatched roof and has one storey with attics. The cottage has casement windows with modern leaded lights and a modern gabled and thatched porch that projects from the south end. There are two dormers and one ridge chimney stack.

Local climate

Elm 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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