Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A C17 House.
Chestnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cornice-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chestnut Cottage, Hall Street, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 863 455
- Coordinates
- 52.07697, 0.7173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on Hall Street in Long Melford. The cottage features a gabled front and is currently faced with roughcast. There is an addition at the north end, where the roof extends down to ground storey level. The building has two storeys and attics, with one window range in the main part and one window range in the addition, both featuring small casement windows. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, and the roof is covered with old tiles.
Local climate
Chestnut 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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