Bartons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. House. 5 related planning applications.

Bartons Cottage

WRENN ID
far-groin-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1951
Type
House
Address
Bartons Cottage, 23, Cumberland Street, Woodbridge, IP12 4AH
OS grid reference
TM 271 488
Coordinates
52.09169, 1.31481
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century, narrow, timber-framed house located at 23 Cumberland Street. The front is partly weatherboarded and partly plastered, with a brick plinth. The roof is tiled with pantiles. The house features a single sash window with glazing bars and a flush frame. A three-panel door, with the top panel containing glazing bars, is set within a wooden case featuring pilasters and a pediment, flanked by sash windows with glazing bars. The house was formerly occupied by the Quaker poet, Barton. It forms a group with numbers 23 to 31 (odd). NMR photographs exist.

Local climate

Bartons 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • 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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