Shrub Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Shrub Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-moat-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shrub Cottage, the Street, Cretingham, IP13 7BG
- OS grid reference
- TM 227 604
- Coordinates
- 52.19762, 1.25869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrub Cottage is a 17th-century house. It is timber framed with colourwashed render and a thatched roof. The front doorway is on the right-hand side and has a 20th-century plank door. To the left of the door is a two-light casement window. The first floor has blank walling. A single, battered chimney stack is recessed and on the left side, and it joins to Forge Cottage.
Local climate
Shrub Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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