Sweet Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1983. House.

Sweet Briar Cottage

WRENN ID
long-pedestal-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1983
Type
House
Address
Sweet Briar Cottage, Chapel Road, Theberton
OS grid reference
TM 449 661
Coordinates
52.2394, 1.586
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sweet Briar Cottage is a 17th-century house that features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a thatched roof. The cottage has a three-window range with two-light casement windows and a plank half door. It has a hipped roof with a ridge stack located on the right-hand side. There are brick and pantile extensions on three sides of the building.

Local climate

Sweet Briar Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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