Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-pillar-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Lower Street, Higham, CO7 6JZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 031 354
- Coordinates
- 51.98054, 0.95709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a house that likely dates from the 17th century. It features a timber frame set on a brick plinth, with the left gable end underbuilt in brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the building has one storey plus an attic. The main entrance is located at the rear.
On the front facing the road, there are three windows: the left window is from the 20th century, while the two on the right are casements with glazing bars. The roof has a swept design, with an off-centre rebuilt ridge stack and a rebuilt external stack on the right gable end.
At the rear, there is a plank door to the left, a further four-panel door, a three-light leaded casement, and a two-light casement to the right. Additionally, there are two small four-pane windows on the first floor to the left. The ends of the wall plates and purlins are visible in the gable end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Walnut Tree 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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