Tiffins is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. A C17 Cottage.
Tiffins
- WRENN ID
- wild-garret-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tiffins, Sand Pits Lane, Holton St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TM 047 368
- Coordinates
- 51.99253, 0.98037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tiffins is a cottage located on Sand Pits Lane in Holton St Mary. It dates from the 17th century and has undergone renovation and extension in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame, rendered exterior, and a thatched roof, with a red brick chimney stack. It is one storey high with an attic and consists of two bays. The front has a boarded door and modern casement windows. At the rear, there is a large external stepped chimney stack and a single-storey kitchen extension with a flat roof. Inside, the cottage has studded walls and two chamfered beams, along with a bressummer over a partly rebuilt inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Tiffins 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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