Dairy Cottages (Estate Numbers 274 and 275) is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. Farmhouse, cottage.
Dairy Cottages (Estate Numbers 274 and 275)
- WRENN ID
- keen-facade-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Dairy Cottages (Estate Numbers 274 and 275), Cretingham
- OS grid reference
- TM 224 608
- Coordinates
- 52.20061, 1.25428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dairy Cottages, originally a farmhouse, were divided into two cottages in the 19th century. The building dates back to the 16th or 17th century and features early to mid-19th century additions and alterations. It is timber-framed with colourwashed stucco render and has a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high.
The entrance front is stucco render that is grooved to imitate ashlar. The nearly symmetrical 19th-century facade was created during the subdivision, featuring plank doors on the left and right, with two-light casements beside each door. On the first floor of each cottage, there are three 3-light casements. The roof is hipped with a near-central brick stack.
To the right of the main house is a recessed brick addition that includes some flint walling and also has a thatched roof, with a blank left-hand end. The rear of the building has lean-tos made of 19th-century brick on both sides. The ground floor features a boarded window on the right and a two-light window on the left, while there are two two-light windows on the first floor to the left.
Inside, both cottages have massive chamfered ceiling beams and joists.
Local climate
Dairy Cottages (Estate Numbers 274 and 275) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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