Cliff House and Shrimp Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1971. House. 4 related planning applications.

Cliff House and Shrimp Cottage

WRENN ID
over-terrace-moon
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
Cliff House and Shrimp Cottage, 2 and 3, East Cliff, Southwold, IP18 6EL
OS grid reference
TM 509 761
Coordinates
52.32562, 1.68148
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cliff House and Shrimp Cottage are two dwellings that were originally a single house built in the early 19th century. A projecting bay was added to the front in the late 19th century, and the property was subdivided in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with a gault-brick facade. The front roof is covered in slate, while the rear roof is pantiled and features a partly rendered ridge stack.

The exterior has a two-storey, three-bay front, with the right bay projecting and a further single bay to the right. In the angle to the left of the projecting bay, there is a six-panel door with a geometric overlight, sheltered by an early 20th-century glazed porch. To the left of this door, there is a 6/6 unhorned sash window with a rendered and painted skewback arch. On the first floor, there are two similar sash windows. The projecting bay has canted corners and tripartite windows on both floors, with glazing bars arranged in patterns of 2/2, 6/6, and 2/2. Each floor of the return has one 6/6 unhorned sash window that matches the main front. The eaves cornice is moulded and dentilled.

Shrimp Cottage occupies the single bay to the right and features a half-glazed 20th-century door with a small casement window to the right. The first floor has a 3/3 unhorned sash window, and there is a flat dormer with a 20th-century top-hung casement window.

Inside, there is a late 19th-century stick-baluster staircase.

Local climate

Cliff House and Shrimp Cottage 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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