6 and 7, Richardsons Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
6 and 7, Richardsons Lane
- WRENN ID
- wild-step-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 6 and 7, Richardsons Lane, Chelmondiston, IP9 1HP
- OS grid reference
- TM 198 377
- Coordinates
- 51.99446, 1.20129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 6 and 7 on Richardsons Lane are a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century, with a 19th-century rear extension. They are constructed with a timber frame and are weatherboarded, topped with a red plain tiled roof and featuring a central red brick chimney stack. The rear kitchen range has a 19th-century red pantiled roof. The cottages are two storeys high with attics and have a two-window range of early leaded metal two-light casements with transoms and drop over hinges. The doors on the right and left are vertically boarded with simple surrounds and pentice boards above, accessed by stepped approaches.
Internally, No 6 retains brick ground floors, while No 7 has been concreted over. Notable features include a 19th-century bake-oven and an 18th-century corner cupboard with shelves and a door. The stairs near the chimney lead up to the attics. The cottages also have various original vertically-boarded doors with hand-wrought hinges and catches, as well as a vertically-boarded stair head wall. The frame incorporates much reused medieval timber.
Local climate
6 and 7, Richardsons Lane 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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