Ducks Paddle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Ducks Paddle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-floor-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ducks Paddle Cottage, Park Road, Benhall
- OS grid reference
- TM 370 609
- Coordinates
- 52.19622, 1.46756
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ducks Paddle Cottage is a former pair of estate workers' cottages that has been converted into a single house. It is dated 1772 on the west gable. The cottage is timber framed and plastered on a brick plinth, with part of the plasterwork designed to resemble ashlar. It features a thatched roof and is a single storey with an attic. The building has a four-window range, with three-light casements that include diamond leaded panes. There are two doorways, each with an original boarded door and a thatched hood supported by rough timber columns. The cottage also has two eyebrow dormers and an internal stack, along with a brick lean-to on the north side.
Local climate
Ducks Paddle 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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