April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-slate-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- April Cottage, Low Road, Marlesford
- OS grid reference
- TM 326 582
- Coordinates
- 52.17376, 1.40057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is a house that likely dates from the early 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building is a single storey with an attic and features a two-window range with casement windows. There is one original two-light metal frame casement window located at the right-hand gable end. The cottage also has an eyebrow dormer and a rendered external stack. To the left side, there is a single-storey extension made of rendered brick and pantiles, along with a lean-to extension at the rear, which uses similar materials. Both extensions have modern boarded doors.
Local climate
April Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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