Mere Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage.

Mere Cottage

WRENN ID
leaning-threshold-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Mere Cottage, Hitcham
OS grid reference
TL 986 530
Coordinates
52.1397, 0.90184
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mere Cottage is a small timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th century, featuring a thatched roof. It has been renovated and consists of one storey with attics. The cottage includes modern casement windows and a gabled porch, along with two gabled dormers on the front. A ridge chimney stack is also present.

Local climate

Mere 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 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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