Acre Piece is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A Georgian Cottage.
Acre Piece
- WRENN ID
- lunar-tower-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Acre Piece, Nayland Road, Leavenheath
- OS grid reference
- TL 955 357
- Coordinates
- 51.98563, 0.84674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acre Piece is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered cottage located on Nayland Road in Leavenheath. The cottage has one storey and attics, featuring a two-window range with 20th-century casements. There is a central doorway, and the roof is tiled with old tiles, designed in a mansard style that is half hipped at both the north and south ends, including two gabled dormers.
Local climate
Acre Piece sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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