St Catchpoles Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A C17 Cottage.
St Catchpoles Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-rubblework-lark
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- St Catchpoles Cottage, Park Lane, Brandeston
- OS grid reference
- TM 251 603
- Coordinates
- 52.19495, 1.29355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Catchpoles Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior with a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic, and it has casement windows and a boarded door. There is one catslide dormer with a pantiled roof. On the right side, there is an external stack and a 19th-century single storey brick extension, suggesting that this end of the original house may have been demolished. The cottage is said to have been occupied by Margaret Catchpole, the famous 18th-century Suffolk smuggler.
Local climate
St Catchpoles 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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