Stone Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Stone Cottages
- WRENN ID
- over-attic-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Stone Cottages, 5, Main Road, Sutton
- OS grid reference
- TM 305 464
- Coordinates
- 52.06835, 1.36256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stone Cottages is an estate cottage built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from rubble flint with yellow brick dressings and features a slate roof. The building stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical entrance front consisting of two bays. The central doorway on the ground floor has a 4-centered arch and the door itself is divided into three panels with interlacing tracery at the top. Flanking the doorway are two 2-light windows with 4-centred heads, Y-tracery, and casement windows. On the first floor, there are two similar windows. The corners of the building and the window surrounds are accented with yellow brick quoins. The hipped roof is topped with a central square chimney stack that has four pots. The right flank of the building has blank walling, while the left flank features one semi-circular window at ground floor level. At the rear, there are two doors at the centre on the ground floor, with a 3-light cambered-headed window to the right and two 2-light windows to the left. On the first floor, there is a 3-light window on the left and a 2-light window on the right, both with cambered heads.
Local climate
Stone Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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