Timber Cottage and Midsummer Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. House. 5 related planning applications.
Timber Cottage and Midsummer Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-render-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Timber Cottage and Midsummer Cottage, Spring Lane, Ufford, Woodbridge, IP13 6EF
- OS grid reference
- TM 298 525
- Coordinates
- 52.12339, 1.3561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is timber framed with colourwashed render and a plain tiled roof, with a row of slate at the eaves. The front has two canted oriel windows on the ground floor to the left, with a two-light casement with louvred shutters between them. To the right of these are a two-light and a three-light casement, with a single-light window set between them. The first floor has four two-light windows and a single-light window. A ridge chimney stack of two flues is located to the left, and a gable stack with offsets is present on the right-hand gable end.
Local climate
Timber Cottage and Midsummer Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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