Auld Reekie is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Auld Reekie
- WRENN ID
- lunar-paling-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Auld Reekie, Lower Holbrook, IP9 2RJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 179 349
- Coordinates
- 51.97039, 1.17223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Auld Reekie, formerly known as Jordans Cottage, is a 17th-century cottage located on the south side of Holbrook Lower Holbrook. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a thatched roof and a central red brick chimneystack. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes a rear wing. It has two small paned horizontal sliding sash windows and a central boarded door. Inside, there is a back-to-back inglenook fireplace and stop-chamfered bridging joists.
Local climate
Auld Reekie 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 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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