Tower Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Cottage.
Tower Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-hammer-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tower Cottage, Church Lane, Shottisham
- OS grid reference
- TM 320 448
- Coordinates
- 52.05317, 1.38286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage built of red Flemish bond brick and topped with a slate roof. It stands two storeys high and features a road front that is symmetrically arranged in three bays. The central bay, which is slightly projecting, is two storeys tall and flanked by single-storey lean-to bays on either side.
The central bay has square turrets at the corners, which contain vertical slits at the ground floor and cross-slits on the first floor. At the ground floor, there is a three-light casement window with a Tudor hood mould, while the first floor features a two-light casement window with a four-centered head and hood mould. Above this, a battlemented parapet with moulded coping runs around the turrets.
The lean-to bays on either side of the central bay have four-centered relieving arches surrounding recessed panels that contain 20th-century single-light windows with square hood moulds. The half-gables are adorned with moulded brick kneelers and coping. Additionally, a 20th-century loft extension with a slate-hung side wall and felt roof is located above the right-hand half-gable.
Local climate
Tower 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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