Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-lantern-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, Snape, IP17 1SH
- OS grid reference
- TM 393 581
- Coordinates
- 52.1692, 1.49944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is constructed from coralline crag with yellow brick dressings and has a glazed pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high with an attic and features a three-window range with three-light casements, flat brick arches, and a square blank centre panel. The central doorway has a four-panel door and a semi-circular panel above, which may be a blocked fanlight. There is a brick band at the first floor level and a cornice with three oversailing courses of brickwork. The house has a central internal stack.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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