The Cottage (Immediately South of Bell Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Cottage.

The Cottage (Immediately South of Bell Cottage)

WRENN ID
sleeping-jade-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage (Immediately South of Bell Cottage), the Street, Walpole
OS grid reference
TM 365 745
Coordinates
52.31778, 1.46898
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage, located immediately south of Bell Cottage, is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic and has three windows, which are 19th-century two-light and three-light casements. There is a boarded door and two eyebrow dormers. The cottage has an internal stack and an external stack on the right-hand gable end.

Local climate

The Cottage (Immediately South of Bell Cottage) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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