Kings Arms Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1984. House, formerly an inn. 4 related planning applications.
Kings Arms Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-gallery-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1984
- Type
- House, formerly an inn
- Address
- Kings Arms Cottage, Woodbridge Road, Tunstall, IP12 2JE
- OS grid reference
- TM 359 550
- Coordinates
- 52.14342, 1.4465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Arms Cottage is a late 16th-century house, formerly an inn. It is timber framed and plastered, with a plaintiled roof. The house has a "T" shape, with a red brick rear wing. It is one storey high with an attic, and has two windows with three-light casements featuring transoms and mullions, and glazing bars. There are three dormers with casements and glazing bars. A modern entrance door is located on the extreme right.
Local climate
Kings Arms Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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