Lotus Cottage Westbury Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Terrace of houses.

Lotus Cottage Westbury Milestone

WRENN ID
winding-gargoyle-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
Lotus Cottage Westbury Milestone, Hall Street, Long Melford
OS grid reference
TL 863 455
Coordinates
52.07692, 0.71723
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lotus Cottage is an early to mid-19th century terrace of houses made from grey gault brick, located on Hall Street in Long Melford. The building has two storeys and cellars, featuring a six-window range with double-hung sash windows, mostly with glazing bars. These windows are set in plain reveals and have stuccoed lintels supported by stub brackets. The doorways also have similar lintels. The roof is covered with slate. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Lotus Cottage Westbury Milestone 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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