Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. House. 5 related planning applications.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-tin-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham, IP20 0PS
- OS grid reference
- TM 323 830
- Coordinates
- 52.39569, 1.41406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house dating from the 16th and early 17th centuries, originally built in a two-cell lobby-entrance form. It is timber-framed and has been roughcast rendered with a clay pantile roof. The chimney stack has been rebuilt in plain red brick. The front of the house has two 3-light casement windows on each floor, featuring transoms. A plank door is set under a small open porch with a single-pitch pantiled roof. The two sections of the house do not appear to be contemporary, although they are close in date, as indicated by a join in the wallplate along the chimney stack. The left-hand section features a ground floor room with very good, closely spaced timber studding, an unusually wide-spaced ceiling joist arrangement, and a main beam with a small ovolo moulding. The roof above this section is original, with clasped purlins and windbraces. The right-hand section, slightly lower and consisting of two bays, has a main beam with a wide chamfer, curved stops to the ends, and main posts carved with shields. One shield bears the initials "W" over "CS," while the other is dated 1610 and displays the initials "W" over "JS." The tie-beam on the upper floor has arched braces, but the roof in this section is a 20th-century replacement. A small, 1½-storey wing at the rear has widely-spaced studding with arched braces at the corners; its roof is concealed.
Local climate
Church Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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