Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1971. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-loggia-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, Tye Green, Alpheton, CO10 9BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 883 507
- Coordinates
- 52.12298, 0.75005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottage located on Tye Green. It has one storey and attics, featuring casement windows with lattice leaded lights. The roof is thatched and includes two gabled dormers with tiled roofs on the front.
Local climate
Smithy 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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