The Cottage Near Church is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House.
The Cottage Near Church
- WRENN ID
- frozen-stair-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage Near Church, Lion Road, Palgrave
- OS grid reference
- TM 115 784
- Coordinates
- 52.36315, 1.10494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage near Church is a house dating from the early 19th century. It features a timber frame set on a red brick plinth and is stuccoed with scoring to resemble ashlar. The roof is glazed with pantiles. The building consists of two cells and is two storeys high, with an offset plinth. The entrance is slightly to the left of the centre, featuring a recessed six raised panelled door within a pilastered doorcase that has roundels in the entablature. The ground floor has three-light flush metal frame casements from the 19th century, with hoodboards above. There is an internal stack at the left end and an external stack at the right end, which has small offsets and a pantiled oven projection. At the rear, there is a one-storey and attic continuous lean-to outshut.
Local climate
The Cottage Near Church 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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