Chestnut Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Cottage.

Chestnut Cottages

WRENN ID
tenth-bronze-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1958
Type
Cottage
Address
Chestnut Cottages, 9 and 11, the Street, Chelsworth
OS grid reference
TL 983 480
Coordinates
52.09561, 0.89448
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut Cottages, located on the south side of The Street in Chelsworth, is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered building. It has one storey and attics, featuring small casement windows. The roof is thatched and includes two gabled dormers on the front, along with a central square chimney stack.

Local climate

Chestnut Cottages 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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