The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A C16 House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-mullion-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, the Street, Earl Soham
- OS grid reference
- TM 231 630
- Coordinates
- 52.22045, 1.26619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th and early 17th century house. It is timber-framed and has been plastered, with a pantiled roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic. It has a three-window front, featuring small-pane casement windows. A 20th-century boarded door is positioned slightly from the original lobby entry. A central first-floor window, added in the mid-20th century, has been raised to create a half-dormer. There is an internal chimney stack and an external stack on the left-hand gable end.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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