The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-transept-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, the Street, St. James, South Elmham, IP19 0HS
- OS grid reference
- TM 319 810
- Coordinates
- 52.3785, 1.40584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a 17th-century house located in South Elmham St. James. It is 1½ storeys high, constructed with a timber frame that is rendered and topped with a thatched roof. The cottage features three 3-light late 20th-century diamond-leaded casement windows on each storey and a plank door situated beneath an open thatched and gabled porch. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft and one end stack. The frame consists of six bays, including a chimney bay, and likely follows a basic three-cell layout. However, to the left of the stack, there is now a single large room, with ceiling beams that may have been added or replaced. The main posts do not have tie-beams, and some of the timbers used are reused. To the right of the stack, the main beam on the ground floor features ovolo-moulding and ogee stops, while the other beams are stop-chamfered, with plain joists set flat. Additionally, there is a single-storey lean-to at the rear.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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