Back to Front Cottage East Cliff House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Back to Front Cottage East Cliff House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-cornice-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Back to Front Cottage East Cliff House, 9, Southwold, IP18 6EL
- OS grid reference
- TM 509 761
- Coordinates
- 52.32601, 1.68153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Back to Front Cottage, East Cliff House is a house dating to circa 1860. It is located in Southwold, with a further section at 17 Trinity Street. The house is constructed of red brick with a hipped slate roof and brick ridge stacks.
The main front has two storeys and four windows. A half-glazed door is located to the right of centre, set within a timber doorcase supported by consoles and a hood. There are six-over-six unhorned sash windows to either side, each beneath a gauged skewback arch. To the extreme left is a plank passageway door with a segmental head. The first floor has four matching sash windows, with the window above the doorway having been altered in the late 20th century.
No. 17 Trinity Street has a two-storey, four-bay front. A four-panelled door is centrally placed, within a timber doorcase with a hood on consoles. There is a blind window above the door, and the remaining windows are six-over-six unhorned sashes.
The interior has not been inspected. The building is noted on a map of Southwold from 1839.
Local climate
Back to Front Cottage East Cliff House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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