Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.
Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-bonework-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Briar Cottage, Sandy Lane, Sternfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 388 612
- Coordinates
- 52.19728, 1.49331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The building has a single storey and an attic, featuring a three-window range with three-light casements. There are two gabled dormers and an internal stack. Additionally, there are two lean-to extensions covered with pantiles, each having a boarded door that dates from the mid-20th century.
Local climate
Briar 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 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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