Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-loggia-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, Badingham Road, Dennington
- OS grid reference
- TM 282 670
- Coordinates
- 52.25465, 1.34211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed, primarily covered in roughcast render, and features a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and a two-cell plan. There are two windows on the front; the ground floor has three 19th-century casements, while the first floor includes one 18th-century casement with some early diamond leaded glass and one original four-light diamond mullion window. The entrance is a lobby with a boarded door. Inside, there is an internal stack and a timber framed service range at the rear. The interior showcases some exposed timber framing and a well-preserved original newel staircase.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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