Owl Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
Owl Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-joist-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Owl Cottage, the Street, Great Waldingfield, CO10 0TN
- OS grid reference
- TL 912 438
- Coordinates
- 52.06023, 0.78856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Owl Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 17th to 18th centuries, renovated in the 20th century. It is a one-story building with attics, featuring a two-window front with casement windows. The roof is thatched, with two gabled dormers having tiled roofs.
Local climate
Owl 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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