Amber Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 1 related planning application.
Amber Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-moat-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Amber Cottage, the Street, Lawshall, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4QA
- OS grid reference
- TL 866 542
- Coordinates
- 52.1548, 0.72642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Amber Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on the south side of The Street in Lawshall. The building has one storey and attics, featuring a three-window range with small casements. At the east end, there is a small 20th-century shop addition. The roof is tiled and hipped, with two gabled dormers and a central chimney stack that has two square shafts set diagonally on a rectangular base.
Local climate
Amber 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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