Cottage 450 Metres South West of Upper Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1983. Cottage.

Cottage 450 Metres South West of Upper Abbey Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muted-trefoil-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1983
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
TM 449 644
Coordinates
52.22351, 1.58434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This cottage, located 450 meters southwest of Upper Abbey Farmhouse, dates from the late 18th century and has additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The main structure is built of flint with yellow brick dressings and features a thatched roof. It has a hexagonal plan and is two stories tall. The cottage includes pointed casement windows. At the rear, there is a single-storey addition made of matching flint with a slate roof, which also has pointed casements and a plain boarded door set within a modern porch.

Local climate

Cottage 450 Metres South West of Upper Abbey Farmhouse 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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