The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A C16 Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-outpost-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Church Hill, Kersey
- OS grid reference
- TM 000 440
- Coordinates
- 52.05867, 0.91733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a building likely dating from the 16th to 17th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof and features a cross wing at the south end. The structure has two storeys and includes small casement windows, along with one gabled dormer on the front.
Local climate
The 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 4 transactions since 2006
- No related consent applications matched
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