The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
blind-ashlar-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, Parsonage Lane, Chelsworth, IP7 7HT
OS grid reference
TL 985 481
Coordinates
52.09573, 0.8965
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered building located on Parsonage Lane in Chelsworth. It has one storey and attics, featuring small casement windows. A modern gabled porch projects from the front of the building. The roof is thatched and includes one gabled dormer at the front, along with a central square chimney stack. Additionally, there is a modern extension with a tiled roof at the west end.

Local climate

The 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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