Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1969. House. 1 related planning application.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
standing-sentry-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1969
Type
House
Address
Church Cottage, Walnuts Lane, Pettistree, IP13 0HR
OS grid reference
TM 297 550
Coordinates
52.14552, 1.3571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a house that was formerly divided into two cottages but has now been restored. It dates from the 16th century and features a timber frame with colourwashed render and a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic.

On the entrance front, there are two 20th-century boarded doors located to the right of centre and at the far left. Next to each door is a 3-light 20th-century casement window. The first floor has two eyebrow dormers, each containing a 2-light casement window. At the ridge, towards the right of centre, is a rebuilt stack made of 20th-century brick. The right-hand end has a hipped roof with a ground floor 3-light metal-framed window and a similar window on the first floor. Arched braces connect to the projecting wall plates on either side, supporting the jettied half-hip.

On the left-hand gable end, there is a 4-light 20th-century metal-framed window on the ground floor and a 3-light similar window on the first floor. At the rear, there is a 20th-century extension with a half-hipped roof.

Inside, the ground floor features massive chamfered ceiling beams and chamfered joists. The walls have jowled posts and close-studded walling with arched braces, along with one additional similar room on the ground floor.

Local climate

Church Cottage 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
  • 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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