Ores Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1961. Cottage.

Ores Barn Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-pinnacle-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1961
Type
Cottage
Address
Ores Barn Cottage, 1 and 2, Thorington Street, Stoke-By-Nayland
OS grid reference
TM 011 353
Coordinates
51.98004, 0.92698
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ores Barn Cottage is a 16th to 17th century timber-framed and plastered building located at right angles to Thorington Street. It features a jettied upper storey at the gable end on the north side and also jetties at the south end of the east front. The north gable is supported by four curved brackets with moulded capitals. The cottage has two storeys and is fitted with casement windows. The roof is tiled and includes a central chimney stack. On the west front, there is a large external chimney stack with tabled offsets, which has been rebuilt above the eaves level.

Local climate

Ores Barn Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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