Waterfall Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Cottage.
Waterfall Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-lantern-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Waterfall Cottage, 40 and 42, the Street, Chelsworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 981 480
- Coordinates
- 52.09496, 0.8914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waterfall Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered building designed in a T-shaped plan. The eastern wing is one storey with attics, while the western wing has two storeys. The roof is thatched and features a ridge chimney stack on the eastern wing, along with an end external stack on the north-south wing. The windows are modern casements with glazing bars.
Local climate
Waterfall 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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