Monks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A Post-Medieval Residential building.
Monks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-glass-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Residential building
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Monks Cottage, Low Street, Glemsford
- OS grid reference
- TL 834 487
- Coordinates
- 52.10692, 0.67672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 17th to 18th century, with a later addition on the north end. The front is finished in roughcast, arranged in panels. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range with small casements that include glazing bars. The roof is tiled and steps down to the north in three levels, with 20th-century pantiles at the north end.
Local climate
Monks 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 80% 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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