Bay Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. Houses. 1 related planning application.
Bay Tree Cottages
- WRENN ID
- carved-sill-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1966
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Bay Tree Cottages, Benhall, IP17 1HX
- OS grid reference
- TM 382 614
- Coordinates
- 52.20014, 1.48483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses dated 1698. They are timber-framed and plastered, with decorative painted patterns on the first floor and attic levels, and some surviving pargeting. The roof is thatched. The houses are two storeys and have an attic. They have a four-window front, with 2-light and 3-light mullion and transom casement windows without glazing bars. There are two 4-panel doors, each with a timber trellis porch with a gabled roof. Two eyebrow dormers are present. One internal stack exists, and gable end stacks have been reduced in height. A brick lean-to extension has been added to the rear.
Local climate
Bay Tree Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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