Virginia Cottage and Church Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House.

Virginia Cottage and Church Corner

WRENN ID
endless-brick-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
House
Address
Virginia Cottage and Church Corner, the Street, Whatfield
OS grid reference
TM 025 465
Coordinates
52.08051, 0.95452
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Virginia Cottage and Church Corner is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th century, topped with a thatched roof. It has one storey and attics, featuring small casement windows and a gabled dormer on the front. A ridge chimney stack is present, and there are modern additions at the rear.

Local climate

Virginia Cottage and Church Corner 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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