The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-keystone-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Blacklands Lane, Sudbourne, IP12 2AX
- OS grid reference
- TM 412 530
- Coordinates
- 52.12283, 1.52318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century to the early 18th century. It is timber framed with a red brick facade and a thatched roof. The building has one storey and an attic, featuring a lobby entrance. There are three windows, which are three-light casements with transoms and segmental brick arches. The cottage has two boarded doors and three dormers with casement windows. A chimney stack is located at the ridge, aligned with the entrance door, and there is another brick stack on the left-hand gable.
Local climate
The Old 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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