Grimsey Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Grimsey Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stark-portal-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grimsey Cottages, Park Street, Stoke-By-Nayland, CO6 4SE
- OS grid reference
- TL 989 362
- Coordinates
- 51.98869, 0.89569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grimsey Cottages is a pair of houses from the 18th century or early 19th century, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. The buildings are two stories high and feature a four-window arrangement with double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars. There are also two six-panel doors. The roofs are hipped and tiled, with a coved eaves cornice that extends around the north-west and south-east ends. At each end of the cottages, there are chimney stacks made of gault brick.
Local climate
Grimsey Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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