Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-attic-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Cottage, Church Road, Shelley
- OS grid reference
- TM 031 384
- Coordinates
- 52.00767, 0.9578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the early 17th century, though it has earlier origins and has undergone later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame that is plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. There are chimney stacks on both the right and left sides of the building. The cottage has one storey and attics, with single storey extensions on both the right and left. It includes a gabled dormer with a 19th-century two-light casement window, and three ground floor 20th-century casements. The central entrance is a vertically boarded door, with an older door located at the rear. Inside, the cottage reveals evidence of at least two phases of construction: the right side is from the 17th century, while the left side may date from the 16th century, 17th century, or even earlier. There is an inglenook fireplace in the left section of the cottage.
Local climate
Church Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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