Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-tower-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Ipswich Road, Witnesham, IP6 9HX
- OS grid reference
- TM 179 494
- Coordinates
- 52.10017, 1.18069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and rough-cast, topped with a pantiled roof that includes gabled casement dormers and an internal chimney made of red brick. The cottage has two-light 20th-century casements with leaded lights and a boarded entrance door. Inside, the complete timber-framing is fully exposed, with many of the timber members reused from an earlier building, likely from the 16th century. There are back-to-back open fireplaces in the hall and parlour.
Local climate
Walnut Tree Cottage 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 lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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