Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-column-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Fern Cottage, Upper Somerton, IP29 4ND
- OS grid reference
- TL 810 532
- Coordinates
- 52.14753, 0.64527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is a building originally dating from the 15th century, designed as a hall house with cross wings at both the north and south ends. Currently, only the south cross wing remains, featuring exposed timber-framing. The cottage is two storeys high and has small casement windows. The ground storey includes a 20th-century bay that has a tiled roof, which extends over the doorway to create a porch. The roof is covered with 20th-century pantiles. Inside, the cottage retains its exposed timber-framing.
Local climate
Fern 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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