White Oak Cottage and Dysart is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Cottage.
White Oak Cottage and Dysart
- WRENN ID
- third-hammer-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Oak Cottage and Dysart, Upper Street, Higham
- OS grid reference
- TM 034 356
- Coordinates
- 51.98222, 0.96184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Oak Cottage and Dysart are two cottages located on the south side of Upper Street in Higham, likely dating from the 17th century. Dysart, which is to the left, is a later addition. White Oak Cottage features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, while Dysart has a front made of red brick that has been colourwashed. The cottages have rebuilt red brick chimney stacks and a thatched roof, except for the lower section of the front pitch, which is covered in plain tiles. The buildings are one storey with an attic and originally followed a two-cell plan, with a single-bay addition to the left that forms Dysart. The cottages have a pair of board doors and 20th-century three-light casement windows. There are three gabled dormers with off-centre casements along the ridge and chimney stacks on the right gable end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
White Oak Cottage and Dysart 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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