Snail Hall and Snails Hall Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Snail Hall and Snails Hall Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-obsidian-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Snail Hall and Snails Hall Cottage, Polstead, CO6 5AU
- OS grid reference
- TM 002 389
- Coordinates
- 52.01285, 0.91626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snail Hall and Snails Hall Cottage are a range of 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottages, currently divided into two tenements. The cottages have thatched roofs and are one storey high with attics. They feature small casement windows and two gabled dormers on the front, each with tiled roofs. There are also two chimney stacks located on the ridge.
Local climate
Snail Hall and Snails Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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