Little Owls the Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1990. Cottage.
Little Owls the Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-bailey-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Owls the Thatched Cottage, Old London Road, Capel St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TM 089 371
- Coordinates
- 51.99391, 1.0419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Owls, also known as The Thatched Cottage, is a cottage that has been converted into two dwellings. It is one of a pair built in the early 18th century. The structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with a half hipped thatched roof and featuring a central chimney stack. The building has one storey and attics, with tall flat-headed dormers. There is a five-window range of diamond leaded casements, which have elaborate catches. A door is located to the left, along with a small 20th-century lean-to. The cottage consists of two bays and a chimney bay, with run-out stops to the chamfered bridging joists.
Local climate
Little Owls the Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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