Rush Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Rush Cottage

WRENN ID
tattered-iron-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Rush Cottage, Semer Road, Chelsworth, IP7 7HZ
OS grid reference
TL 982 472
Coordinates
52.08829, 0.8924
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rush Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th centuries. It is a one-storey building with attics, featuring small casement windows. A central gabled porch is present. The roof is thatched, with a single dormer window and an end chimney stack.

Local climate

Rush 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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