Valley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. House.
Valley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-stone-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Valley Cottage, Charsfield Road, Wickham Market
- OS grid reference
- TM 292 567
- Coordinates
- 52.16151, 1.35077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Valley Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and roughcast, featuring a mainly plain tiled roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, with a one-storey buttery at the rear constructed of brick and topped with a pantiled roof. The cottage has two storeys and an attic, with a lobby entrance. To the left, there is an outshut with a modern one-storey elevation. The windows are scattered, mostly consisting of modern casements with glazing bars. A red brick stack with a moulded base is located along the central axis. Inside, the cottage showcases a well-preserved exposed frame, with double moulded stop-chamfers on the main beams.
Local climate
Valley 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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