Doves Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Cottage.
Doves Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-barrel-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Doves Cottage, Mill Lane, Chattisham
- OS grid reference
- TM 091 427
- Coordinates
- 52.04392, 1.04835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doves Cottage is a late 16th-century cottage located on Mill Lane in Chattisham. It features a timber frame with rendered walls and plain tile roofs, designed in a T-plan with a two-cell lobby entrance and a rear wing. The cottage has two storeys and includes 19th-century timber casements with horizontal bars, consisting of two lights to the left and three lights to the right of the door. On the first floor to the left, there is a three-light metal casement, with the outer lights being leaded. The entrance has a boarded door adorned with two elaborate strap hinges and is sheltered by a 20th-century porch. A brick stack is present, with the shaft having been rebuilt in the late 17th or early 18th century. Inside, the cottage features very heavy chamfered beams and joists with bar stops, and the stairs are located in front of the stack. Access to the upper floor is not available.
Local climate
Doves Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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