Barn Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse, cottage.
Barn Cottages
- WRENN ID
- gilded-chamber-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Barn Cottages, 1 and 2, Silverlace Green, Benhall
- OS grid reference
- TM 359 615
- Coordinates
- 52.20131, 1.45201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn Cottages, located at Silverlace Green in Benhall, is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages, with No. 1 having been modernised. The building dates back to the 17th century and features a timber frame with roughcast render and a pantiled roof. It is two storeys high with an attic. The windows are casement style, although some have been replaced in the 20th century and lack glazing bars. There are two modern half-glazed doors, one internal stack, and one stack at the gable end.
Local climate
Barn Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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