Fir Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1984. Cottage.
Fir Tree Cottages
- WRENN ID
- swift-stair-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottages, Blacksmiths Lane, Iken
- OS grid reference
- TM 412 551
- Coordinates
- 52.14158, 1.52371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottages is a pair of cottages that likely began as a single house, dating from the early 17th century. The structure is timber framed and plastered, with gable walls featuring a color-washed brick face. It has a thatched roof and may have originally had a lobby entrance, although the door has been removed. The building includes three windows, which are casements with glazing bars, and two dormers that also have casements with glazing bars. There are boarded doors at either end, each with a projecting timber hood. A moulded square red brick stack is present on the building.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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