Women's Institute is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Women's Institute

WRENN ID
muffled-grate-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Women's Institute, the Street, Shottisham, IP12 3ET
OS grid reference
TM 316 444
Coordinates
52.04975, 1.37732
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Women's Institute is a row of three cottages, now converted into a meeting hall. It dates from the 16th or 17th century, with 19th-century additions and alterations. The building is constructed of Flemish bond brick and has a 20th-century plain tile roof, which was originally thatched.

The structure is single-storey with an attic. The entrance front features early 19th-century walling. The two cottages on the right have a higher ridge than the one on the left. There are three doorways with cambered heads, each with plank doors, positioned to the right of the center, and to the right and left. Cambered-headed two-light windows are located at the far right, far left, and right of center. To the left of the near-central doorway are three windows; one on the left has a cambered head and two casement lights but was formerly a doorway, now partially bricked up. To the right of this is a two-light casement window with a flat-arched head, followed by a single-light window with a similar head.

The attic features two raking dormer windows, with the left one having four-by-three sash panes and the right one having seven-by-three panes, both dating from the 20th century. There is a ridge chimney stack on the right with two pots and a single-flued stack on the left-hand cottage. The left gable end has a half-hipped roof, while the right has a projecting brick plinth and rendered walling. The left gable end is similar, with a single-light cambered-headed window.

At the rear, the building is rendered except for the plinth, which shows 16th-century bricks with later patching in 19th-century bricks and cement blocks. There are single-light windows at the extreme right and left, a two-light 20th-century window to the left of center, and a three-light 19th-century casement on the right.

Inside, there are wall posts on the rear wall and a blocked window, as well as chamfered tie beams and ceiling beams.

Local climate

Women's Institute sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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