Glebe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Glebe Cottage

WRENN ID
heavy-plaster-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Glebe Cottage, Church Lane, Spexhall, IP19 0RQ
OS grid reference
TM 378 800
Coordinates
52.36657, 1.49285
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Glebe Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that features two storeys and a two-cell end chimney plan, with later additions. The building is timber-framed, partially plastered, and the rest is encased in colour-washed 19th-century brick, topped with clay pantiles. On the upper floor, there are two three-light cast-iron casement windows, while the ground floor has two 20th-century replacement windows set in surrounds with segmental arches, along with a blocked doorway between them. A 19th-century brick extension for a stair and hall is located at the west end and also has a blocked doorway. Inside, the plain framing is exposed in three bays, and the original fireplace features a plain timber lintel. Some of the ceiling beams are very rough, and the roof structure is largely concealed. The cottage is positioned sideways to the road, in a corner-to-corner position with The Old House, and it is likely that it was originally built as a unit house. It is now separately occupied.

Local climate

Glebe 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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