Apple Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Apple Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-finial-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Apple Tree Cottage, Cratfield, IP19 0DS
- OS grid reference
- TM 303 767
- Coordinates
- 52.34085, 1.37943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Apple Tree Cottage is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the early 16th century and was renovated between 1983 and 1984. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of modern interlocking concrete tiles. It has two storeys and a three-cell layout. The cottage features small casement windows and a gabled porch with a boarded door, along with a rebuilt internal stack, all added in the mid-20th century. Inside, the substantial arch-braced open truss over the former open hall has been preserved, and there is some evidence of diamond-mullioned windows. The left-hand cell has very rough but substantial joisting, which is likely original to the building.
Local climate
Apple Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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