Old Queens Head Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House.

Old Queens Head Cottages

WRENN ID
frozen-glass-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
House
Address
Old Queens Head Cottages, 1-4, Little Green, Thrandeston
OS grid reference
TM 113 764
Coordinates
52.34519, 1.10083
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Queen's Head Cottages is a house that was later used as a public house and then converted into four dwellings, now comprising three dwellings. It dates from the mid-17th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries, and alterations made in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame that has been extended with clay lump and is all plastered, topped with thatched roofs.

The structure consists of four cells, with a parlour at the left end and a two-bay service addition on the right. It is one storey high with attics. Nos. 1 and 2 are part of the original building and have two entrances. They feature 19th and 20th century two and three-light glazing bar casements, hoodboards, and a three-light dormer. There is a rebuilt axial ridge stack to the left of the center and a 19th or 20th century stack on the front slope towards the right. The left gable end has a pantiled lean-to outshut, an attic light, and exposed plates and purlins.

At the rear, there are pantiled and thatched lean-to outshuts flanking a 19th century full-height two-bay wing with casements, an extruded gable end stack, and an additional one-storey outbuilding, all pantiled. Nos. 3 and 4, added to the right, have an entrance and a two-light casement to the left, with a central ridge stack. The right gable end features two and three-light casements and an entrance, along with a two-light dormer at the rear. There are pantiled lean-to outshuts at both the front and rear.

Inside Nos. 1 and 2, the hall includes a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and a fireplace bressumer, while the parlour has some close studding, a stop-chamfered axial binding beam, and joists. The frame is largely concealed, and the first floor and Nos. 3 and 4 have not been inspected.

Local climate

Old Queens Head Cottages 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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