Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-remnant-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Oak Cottage, the Street, Metfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 295 800
- Coordinates
- 52.3704, 1.36995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a former farmhouse that was later converted into two cottages. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and was built in two phases. The structure is timber framed and plastered, featuring remnants of old panelled plasterwork at the front. It has a pantiled roof and stands two storeys high with an attic, arranged in a three-cell form. The building has four windows, which are 18th to 19th century casements, and two doorways, each with a plank door and a mid-20th century gabled porch. There is an internal stack and a gable stack on the right side. Inside, the cottage retains exposed framing and the original newel stairs.
Local climate
Oak Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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