The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A Medieval House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-keep-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Old Cottage, the Street, Brent Eleigh, CO10 9NS
- OS grid reference
- TL 942 478
- Coordinates
- 52.09476, 0.83444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered building with a thatched roof, located in Brent Eleigh. Originally constructed as a hall house between the 15th and 16th centuries, a floor was inserted in the 16th century. The solar, or principal living area, was likely situated at the south-east end. The building is one storey high with attics. It features casement windows and boarded doors. A gabled dormer is visible on the front, and an internal chimney stack is present with attached shafts. The interior retains exposed timber-framing.
Local climate
The Old 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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