Oak Cottage and Park View is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 3 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage and Park View
- WRENN ID
- inner-oriel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage and Park View, Bull Lane, Acton, CO10 0BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 878 459
- Coordinates
- 52.08036, 0.73929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage and Park View is a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered house, with a cross wing added at the east end in the 17th century. The building has one storey and attics, featuring 20th-century casement windows. The front displays two gabled porches that project outward. The roofs are tiled, including one modern sloping roofed dormer, and there is a central chimney stack serving both the main block and the cross wing. Inside, the house showcases exposed timber-framing, ceiling beams, and joists.
Local climate
Oak Cottage and Park View 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 1999
- 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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