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

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

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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