Tower Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Folly cottage.
Tower Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-merlon-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Folly cottage
- Address
- Tower Cottage, Coddenham
- OS grid reference
- TM 121 530
- Coordinates
- 52.1353, 1.09893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Cottage is a folly cottage located on the Shrubland Estate, built in 1857 as indicated by painted plaques in the blind window openings. It was commissioned by Sir W.F. Middleton, Bart. The structure features a three-storey tower with a pentagonal plan, primarily constructed of flint rubble with gault brick dressings. The flat roof is adorned with embattled parapets made of gault brick, and there are bands of brick at each floor level.
The windows have semicircular heads and small pane sashes, with the upper sashes rising into the head and featuring intersecting glazing bars. The third storey has smaller windows arranged in pairs. Some windows have been replaced with 20th-century small-pane casements. The entrance doors on the ground and first storeys are boarded, with the first-storey door accessed by an external stair that has flint and brick balustrading. Above this doorway is a carved limestone plaque displaying the Middleton family crest. A stair-turret extends the full height of the building, providing access to the roof.
Local climate
Tower 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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