Swiss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1996. House.
Swiss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-mullion-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swiss Cottage, 1, Crabbe Street, Aldeburgh
- OS grid reference
- TM 465 568
- Coordinates
- 52.15468, 1.60239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swiss Cottage is a house built around 1850, constructed from colourwashed brick with a machine-tile roof. The building has two storeys and features three bays. To the left of the centre is a half-glazed door, flanked by late 19th-century canted bay windows that have horned sashes arranged in 1/1, 2/2, and 1/1 configurations. A full-width timber balcony on the first floor is supported by four cast-iron posts. Three French windows open onto the balcony, which includes glazing bars and louvred shutters. The eaves cornice is saw-toothed, and above each French window is a gable with pierced scalloped bargeboards. There is a partly external stack on the south side and a ridge stack to the right of centre, both featuring twin polygonal flues. The house also has a two-storey rear wing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Swiss Cottage 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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