Beech Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Beech Cottages
- WRENN ID
- watchful-oriel-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Beech Cottages, Church Street, Stoke-By-Nayland, CO6 4QH
- OS grid reference
- TL 987 362
- Coordinates
- 51.98941, 0.89371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are 18th-century timber-framed cottages located on the north side of Church Street in Stoke-by-Nayland. The cottages have a plastered facade with decorative panels. They are one storey high with attics, and feature a three-window front with double-hung sash windows containing glazing bars. Three doorways are present, each with a moulded wooden architrave and a shallow cornice above, leading to six-panel doors. The roofs are tiled, using old tiles, and incorporate three gabled dormers and a central rectangular chimney stack.
Local climate
Beech Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions 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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