Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. House.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-casement-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, the Street, Walpole
- OS grid reference
- TM 365 744
- Coordinates
- 52.31758, 1.469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a house with two main sections, dating from the 16th century on the left side and a 17th century cross wing that is set forward on the right side, creating an L-shaped plan. To the left of the older section, there is a small one-bay addition, likely from the early 18th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with the rear of the older part finished in colourwashed brick and a pantiled roof. The left side is single storey with an attic, while the cross wing is two storeys with an attic. It features various casement windows; the older part has a lobby entrance with a boarded door and one gabled dormer. Each section contains an internal stack. Inside, the older part has some exposed framing and good original floorboarding.
Local climate
Lilac 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
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