Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1983. A Post-medieval House.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-tracery-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1983
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, 2, Church Lane, Kirton
- OS grid reference
- TM 280 397
- Coordinates
- 52.00917, 1.32221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a house, likely originating as a 16th century cross entry hall, but it has undergone significant alterations in the 18th century and later. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. It features a mix of two storeys and one storey with a dormer. The windows are scattered and consist of 20th century casements, with a gabled dormer on the right side of the roof. There are rendered stacks at the gables and the rear of the building, and the entrance door is also from the 20th century.
Local climate
Keepers Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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