Walnut Tree Cottage and Costa Plenty is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1979. A 17th-18th century Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Walnut Tree Cottage and Costa Plenty

WRENN ID
hollow-storey-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1979
Type
Cottage
Period
17th-18th century
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage and Costa Plenty, Church Hill, Monks Eleigh, Ipswich, IP7 7JQ
OS grid reference
TL 965 476
Coordinates
52.09229, 0.86828
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage and Costa Plenty are a timber-framed building dating from the 17th to 18th century, which has been faced in modern painted brick and renovated. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window front, featuring modern casement windows. The roof is tiled and includes a central chimney stack. Originally, the building was listed as a block of cottages owned by E V Leeder, situated between Church Cottages and Hill Cottage.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottage and Costa Plenty 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
  • 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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