Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1995. House. 4 related planning applications.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-corbel-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Bigsby's Corner, Benhall, IP17 1HE
- OS grid reference
- TM 386 618
- Coordinates
- 52.203, 1.4905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is an early 17th century house that features a timber frame with plastered walls and brick ends and plinth. The building has two storeys and generally has 20th century casement windows, although some original casements are still present, with lattice leaded lights. The south side of the cottage showcases notable pargetting, including a central elliptical wreath design with different patterns in each quarter, separated by tied laurel leaves. Additionally, there is a band of running vine ornament at the first floor level. The doors are made of planks, and the roof is covered with pantiles.
Local climate
Garden 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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