Water Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. House. 1 related planning application.
Water Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-nave-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Water Cottage, the Street, Kersey, IP7 6DY
- OS grid reference
- TM 000 441
- Coordinates
- 52.0595, 0.91675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Water Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered building with 17th century external features, possibly dating from an earlier period. The roof is tiled and features two gables on the front, both of which are slightly jettied. The building has two storeys and a two-window range of casements. On the north side, there is a large external chimney stack with tabled offsets.
Local climate
Water 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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