Burgh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House.

Burgh Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Burgh Cottage, Grundisburgh Road
OS grid reference
TM 227 513
Coordinates
52.11549, 1.2526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Burgh Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed, finished with colourwashed render, and has a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and features a three-cell baffle-entry plan, along with later extensions that create an L-shaped layout.

On the entrance front, there is a 20th-century porch with a hipped roof located to the left of the centre, which has a half-glazed door. To the left of the porch are outshuts with flat and hipped roofs. On the ground floor to the right of the porch, there are a 2-light and a 3-light casement window, and further to the right, there is another 20th-century outshut. The first floor has four 2-light windows in the central section and an additional 2-light window on the right side, which belongs to an extension featuring a catslide roof that follows the angle of the hipped roof. Slightly projecting to the right is another addition with a gabled and a flat roof, which includes a 2-light window at the first floor level. The house has an axial stack with three diamond-section flues.

At the rear, there is a half-glazed doorway on the left, sheltered by an early 20th-century gabled trellis porch. To the right of this door are two 3-light casement windows, and on the left, there is a 2-light casement window. The first floor features three 2-light casement windows, and the roof has three gabled dormer windows, each with two lights, pargetted plaster sides, moulded frames, and shaped bargeboards. To the far right, there is a single-storey 20th-century addition with a window containing three casement lights. On the left side, in the catslide lean-to, there is a half-glazed ground floor door and a 2-light casement window on the first floor. Projecting at the extreme left is a gabled single-storey wing that has three 2-light casement windows facing the garden. All the windows on this front date from the late 19th or 20th century and feature 4-centred heads to the lights.

Local climate

Burgh Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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