The Little Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 2002. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

The Little Cottage

WRENN ID
peeling-pier-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 2002
Type
Cottage
Address
The Little Cottage, Fair Green, Glemsford, CO10 7PH
OS grid reference
TL 828 484
Coordinates
52.10382, 0.66903
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Little Cottage is a small cottage dating from the late 18th century. It features a rendered and whitewashed timber frame, with weatherboarding on the rear gable. The roof is made of corrugated sheets, and there is a brick central ridge stack. The cottage has a compact two-unit plan measuring approximately 5 meters by 3 meters and is single storey with an attic. The gable faces the front, with a two-light casement window on the ground floor and a door to the right, along with another two-light casement window above. There is also a two-light casement window on the left side. The right side has a small lean-to extension with a stack, and there are various casements and a door at the rear.

Inside, a bridging beam is visible in the main room, with joists in the kitchen behind, where there is a tiny winder stair. Some framing can be seen on the stair and in the attic, and there are plank doors. This cottage is an unusual example of a particularly small dwelling, and its location on the edge of a green suggests it may have originally served as a squatter's cottage.

Local climate

The Little 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 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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