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

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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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