Smithy Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. A C17 Residential.
Smithy Cottages
- WRENN ID
- sheer-bailey-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Smithy Cottages, 1-3, the Street, Monewden
- OS grid reference
- TM 241 586
- Coordinates
- 52.18034, 1.27732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottages is a row of three cottages that were formerly one house, dating from the 17th century. The cottages are timber framed, finished with colourwashed render, and originally had a thatched roof, which has since been replaced with pantiles. They are two storeys high.
On the entrance front, there are two doorways positioned to the right of the centre and one doorway at the far left. To the left of centre, there is a 4-light window, a 2-light window, and a small single-light window. To the right of the paired doors, there are two 2-light windows. The first floor features four 19th-century three-light casements. There is a lean-to structure at the far left.
At the rear, there is a plank door at the far right and two half-glazed doors at the far left, along with a mix of 19th and 20th-century windows. A large chimney stack is located at the ridge to the left of centre, and there is a 3-flue cross-axial stack at the right.
Inside, the ground floor has chamfered ceiling beams and close studded walling.
Local climate
Smithy Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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