Fitzgerald Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. House. 1 related planning application.
Fitzgerald Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-banister-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fitzgerald Cottage, Woodbridge Road, Bredfield, IP13 6AA
- OS grid reference
- TM 266 513
- Coordinates
- 52.11433, 1.30891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fitzgerald Cottage is a house that was formerly the service wing of Bredfield House. It dates back to the 17th century and features a timber frame with colour-washed render and a plain pantile roof. The building has two storeys and a basement.
On the entrance front, there is a 20th-century gabled porch on the right with a plank doorway. To the left of the porch, there is a basement window with two horizontal lights set in a projecting plinth. The ground floor includes a 2-light casement window on the right and a sash window with 5 x 4 panes on the left. Between these, there is a single-light casement window with 2 x 4 panes. On the first floor, there is a 3-light casement window on the right, a 2-light similar window on the left, and a single-light window in between. The roof features a single-flue chimney stack on the left and one of two flues to the right behind the ridge.
Adjoining the right side of the cottage is a single-storey addition that was formerly the servants' hall. This addition has a blocked doorway at the right of centre with a cambered head and a 2-light casement window immediately to the left. The right gable end is mostly obscured by this later addition, which has four sash windows divided by mullions, each with 3 x 4 panes and a hipped roof above.
The left end of the cottage has battered walling at the lower body and a projecting gabled end of a lean-to at the rear, which now features two first-floor windows with one and two casement lights. This gable end originally connected to the main body of Bredfield House, which has since been demolished. At the rear, there is a 19th-century lean-to with a pantile catslide roof that includes four sash windows, each with 4 x 4 panes.
Local climate
Fitzgerald 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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