York Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House.
York Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-string-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- York Cottage, Saxtead
- OS grid reference
- TM 255 644
- Coordinates
- 52.23191, 1.30191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
York Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with the section to the left of the stack being slightly later than the rest. There is a mid-20th century extension at the rear. The building is timber framed with roughcast render and a slated roof, standing two storeys high with an attic. It has a two-cell plan and features two mid-20th century large pane casement windows. The doorway is asymmetrical and has a mid-20th century boarded door, with a central internal stack. There is a diamond leaded attic window on the right-hand gable end. Inside, the cottage showcases fine exposed timbering, closely-spaced studwork, and chamfered joists in the later section. It retains original attic floorboards and a good exposed roof structure, which includes clasped and butt purlins with arched wind bracing.
Local climate
York Cottage 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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