Riverside Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A C16-C17 House. 4 related planning applications.
Riverside Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ghost-glass-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Riverside Cottages, 72-78, Bear Street, Nayland-With-Wissington, CO6 4HY
- OS grid reference
- TL 971 342
- Coordinates
- 51.97218, 0.86874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverside Cottages are a timber-framed and plastered house, likely dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, though significantly altered since. The ground storey is now faced with modern brick, while the upper storey was likely formerly jettied. The building is currently divided into four tenements. It has two storeys, with a four-window range; numbers 72 to 76 feature horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars, and number 78 has 20th-century casements. There are four boarded doors. The west gable is clad in weatherboarding. The roofs are tiled.
Local climate
Riverside Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- 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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