The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A 17th century Cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
long-spandrel-holly
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
Cottage
Period
17th century
Address
The Cottage, 1, Friday Street, Brandeston, IP13 7BS
OS grid reference
TM 240 598
Coordinates
52.19114, 1.27709
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage, originally one house and now divided into two cottages, likely dates from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a pantiled roof. The building is single storey with an attic and has a two-cell plan. There are two windows, which are 19th-century small pane casements, along with two boarded doors and three gabled dormers. An internal stack is present. To the left side, there is a 19th-century colorwashed brick extension.

Local climate

The 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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