Old Hall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. House. 3 related planning applications.

Old Hall Cottages

WRENN ID
eastward-pinnacle-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1989
Type
House
Address
Old Hall Cottages, 1 and 2, Harkstead Road, IP9 1DB
OS grid reference
TM 193 353
Coordinates
51.97324, 1.19283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Hall Cottages is a house that has been divided into two dwellings, dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building has an off-centre left red brick chimneystack and stands two storeys high with attics. The façade features a four-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. There are two 20th-century doors, each with early surrounds and moulded pediments. Inside, the timber frame remains intact, showcasing side girts, top plates, and jowled storey posts. The interior includes heavy stop-chamfered bridging joists and a large chimney stack that is now blocked, with 20th-century fire surrounds. There is a moulded four-board attic door in No 1, and the ground floor chimney-breasts have moulded jowls.

Local climate

Old Hall Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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