Scutchers Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Terrace of houses. 1 related planning application.
Scutchers Cottages
- WRENN ID
- keen-stronghold-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- Scutchers Cottages, 1-6, Westgate Street, Long Melford, CO10 9DP
- OS grid reference
- TL 863 466
- Coordinates
- 52.08649, 0.71916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scutchers Cottages is a terrace of six early 19th century timber-framed houses located on the north side of Westgate Street, Long Melford. The cottages were built to house workers in a local flax industry, specifically those involved in scutching flax. The terrace is divided into two blocks, each two storeys high and six windows wide. The front elevation is weatherboarded, and the windows are double-hung sashes with single vertical glazing bars. The roofs are covered with slate.
Local climate
Scutchers Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 2002
- 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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