Long Straw Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. A C17 House. 5 related planning applications.
Long Straw Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-chamber-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Long Straw Cottage, Rectory Road, Wyverstone, IP14 4SH
- OS grid reference
- TM 035 678
- Coordinates
- 52.27134, 0.98149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Long Straw Cottage is a house, which was later divided into two dwellings, dating from the mid to late 17th century and altered in the 20th century. It has a timber frame on a brick base and is plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building features a small three-cell lobby entry plan and is one storey with an attic. There is a 20th-century lean-to porch to the left of the center, along with 20th-century two-light casement windows and two eyebrow thatched dormers. An axial ridge stack is positioned to the left of the center between the hall and parlour, with a rebuilt cap. The left end has a 20th-century lean-to outshut, and the gable end includes three-light casements, exposed purlins, and brackets fixed at the eaves to the right. At the rear, there is a two-light dormer and additional 20th-century additions. Inside, the parlour features a reused 16th-century post with a scroll-moulded bracket supporting a bar stop-chamfered axial binding beam, cambered collars to the principals, and a side purlin roof.
Local climate
Long Straw Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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