South Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
South Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-wattle-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- South Cottage, Cratfield, IP19 0QJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 291 759
- Coordinates
- 52.33386, 1.36217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Cottage is a 17th-century farmhouse. It is timber-framed with plastered walls, and the right-hand gable end is weatherboarded, with a thatched roof. The building originally comprised two rooms, with a single-storey 18th-century dairy addition to the right. It features two windows, which are 19th-century three-light casements. A gabled thatched porch sits to the left, and there's a 20th-century boarded entrance door with carved decoration. An internal stack is present. The interior retains the original timber frame and a newel staircase.
Local climate
South Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- 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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