Beckett's Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. Cottage.
Beckett's Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-loggia-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beckett's Barn Cottage, Becketts Lane, Shelley
- OS grid reference
- TM 017 381
- Coordinates
- 52.00533, 0.93777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beckett's Barn Cottage, also known as Beckett's Barn or Beckett's Cottages, is a cottage that dates from the 16th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The cottage features external right and two rear red brick chimney stacks. It is one storey high with attics and includes one gabled dormer. The ground floor has four 20th-century casement windows, and there is a 20th-century gabled porch with a door. The building is situated on a hill, and a brick plinth on the left side follows the contour of the slope. Inside, there are chamfered bridging joists, and an original mullion has been moved to an internal position.
Local climate
Beckett's Barn Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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