Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-lantern-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fern Cottage, Saxtead, IP13 9QB
- OS grid reference
- TM 260 643
- Coordinates
- 52.23113, 1.3091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is an early 16th-century house with a 20th-century extension at the left-hand end. The original structure is timber-framed and plastered, with mid-20th-century plaster panels on the facade. The extension is built of red brick, and the entire building is roofed with thatch. It has two storeys and three windows containing various casement windows. The asymmetrical front door is sheltered by a thatched gabled porch and has a mid-20th-century door. An internal stack is located at the end of the 16th-century range, while the extension has a gable-end stack. The interior of the original range features heavy, unchamfered joists at the right-hand end and a later inserted floor at the left-hand end. Two original diamond mullion windows remain, now blocked, along with mortices indicating the former positions of others.
Local climate
Fern 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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