Grassmere 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.
Grassmere Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-tower-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grassmere Cottage, Joes Road, Great Cornard, CO10 0QB
- OS grid reference
- TL 906 403
- Coordinates
- 52.02873, 0.77837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grassmere Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is two storeys high and has casement windows. The roof is thatched and features two dormers on the front, with a central chimney stack.
Local climate
Grassmere Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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