Butley Abbey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. House.
Butley Abbey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-newel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TM 375 493
- Coordinates
- 52.09176, 1.46586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butley Abbey Cottage is a house that was formerly a pavilion to the Abbey Gatehouse, dating from around 1800. It is part of a pair, with the other building on the right of the gatehouse now demolished. The cottage is constructed of red brick and random stone, topped with a pyramidal slate roof.
The building has two storeys and features a single-storey glazed conservatory at the rear. The front façade includes a sham recessed carriageway opening with a stone pointed four-centred arch that springs from a brick platband. At ground floor level, there is a plain doorway that has been blocked with stone. There are three 20th-century fixed lights at ground floor level, each with segmental arches. On the first floor, there are two quatrefoil dummy openings that are filled with stone. The left flank wall is made of random stone.
At the rear, the windows consist of 20th-century casements with glazing bars and semi-circular arches. A stone dentil course runs along the eaves, and there are two red brick chimney stacks.
Local climate
Butley Abbey Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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