Orchard House Vincents Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. House.
Orchard House Vincents Cottage
- WRENN ID
- veiled-corbel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House Vincents Cottage, the Street, Monks Eleigh
- OS grid reference
- TL 969 477
- Coordinates
- 52.09272, 0.87333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House and Vincents Cottage is a 16th to 17th century timber-framed and plastered building located on the north side of The Street in Monks Eleigh. The structure features a cross wing at the west end that extends to the north. It has small casement windows with glazing bars and a thatched roof, which includes two gabled dormers on the front. The building retains an original central chimney stack with three attached diagonal shafts.
Local climate
Orchard House Vincents Cottage 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings