St Mary's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. House.
St Mary's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-wicket-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Mary's Cottage, the Street, Capel St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TM 087 382
- Coordinates
- 52.00374, 1.03952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Cottage is a house that dates back to the 15th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. The 20th-century facade features timber framing and plastered brick with batten decoration on the first floor. The roof is hipped and covered with striated red tiles, topped by a central red brick chimney stack. The cottage has two storeys and a three-window range of vari-light casements.
The entrance is off-center, featuring a 20th-century nailed plank and muntin door with a segmental head and a moulded surround. The house includes a crosswing to the right, which may consist of two or more builds, each with heavy arched wall braces. The right crosswing has a chamfered depressed segmental arch service doorway adorned with a central carved youth's head wearing a flat cap, and there may be another doorway adjacent behind the plastered wall.
Inside, the ground floor ceiling beams in the rear bay of the crosswing measure at least 10 inches by 6 inches, while the bridging joist is less sturdy. The original boards remain in the bedroom floors, and there is a brick floor in the rear room. An inglenook fireplace, likely inserted in the left range, is now partly blocked and features a moulded surround. A vertically boarded door leads to the staircase by the chimney stack. The interior also includes stop-chamfered bridging joists, flat section ceiling beams, jowled storey posts, and ceiling boards to the collars.
Local climate
St Mary's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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