Elm Row is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 2004. Cottage.

Elm Row

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 January 2004
Type
Cottage
Address
Elm Row, Ramsholt
OS grid reference
TM 323 408
Coordinates
52.01734, 1.38449
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Row is a terrace of four cottages built in the early 19th century, with small rear wings added later in the 19th century. The cottages are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and feature pantile roofs, with fish-scale slate on the rear wings. There are brick stacks on the ridge and at the rear wings. The cottages are two storeys high and have an eight-window range on the first floor, consisting of two-light casements. The ground floor has casements and plank doors beneath brick segmental arches. Some of the casements are set lower to accommodate stairs and provide light to the kitchen and larder. The rear wings contain small casements and plank doors.

Inside, the cottages have seen little alteration and feature a layout that includes a sitting room, kitchen/larder, a landing bedroom, and a bedroom above, with the small later wing added. Notable interior features include small open and cast-iron fireplaces, brick floors, plank doors, straight flight stairs with simple top balustrades, and curving tiebeams. Elm Row is a rare example of an early 19th-century terrace of farmworkers' cottages that remains largely unchanged, situated in the countryside close to the land where the tenants worked. The preservation of many interior features is particularly remarkable.

Local climate

Elm Row 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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