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

Patch Cottage

WRENN ID
sheer-lime-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Patch Cottage, the Hill, Polstead
OS grid reference
TL 991 381
Coordinates
52.00585, 0.89978
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Patch Cottage is a small timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 18th to 19th century, featuring a tiled roof. It has one storey and attics, with small casement windows and a boarded door. A ridge chimney stack is located at the south-east end.

Local climate

Patch Cottage 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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