Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House. 4 related planning applications.
Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-footing-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Primrose Cottage, Hall Street, Long Melford, CO10 9DY
- OS grid reference
- TL 864 459
- Coordinates
- 52.08016, 0.72018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on Hall Street in Long Melford. This two-storey building features a timber frame and is weatherboarded. It has a two-window range with 20th-century mullioned and transomed casements that include leaded lights, with two and three lights in each window. The entrance is marked by a 20th-century glazed door that is adorned with a moulded architrave, a frieze decorated with fret ornamentation, and a cornice. The roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
Primrose 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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