The Retreat and Pin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1971. Houses.
The Retreat and Pin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-window-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1971
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- The Retreat and Pin Cottage, 20 and 22, South Green, Southwold
- OS grid reference
- TM 508 759
- Coordinates
- 52.32419, 1.67999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat and Pin Cottage are a pair of houses located on South Green in Southwold, built around 1845 with later 19th-century bay windows. They are constructed of red brick and feature a pantile roof with a central ridge and end stacks.
Both houses are two stories tall and each has a two-window front with a central entrance. The Retreat (No.20) has a six-panelled door with glazed upper panels, flanked by 6/6 unhorned sash windows on either side, all of which have hoodmoulds supported by scrolled consoles. On the first floor, there are 6/6 unhorned sash windows set in flush frames.
Pin Cottage (No.22) features a half-glazed door beneath a hood on scrolled consoles, with canted bay windows on either side that contain 4/4 and 6/6 unhorned sash windows. The first floor also has 6/6 unhorned sash windows in flush frames. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Retreat and Pin Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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