Flinders Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.

Flinders Cottage

WRENN ID
silver-chalk-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Flinders Cottage, the Street, Framsden, IP14 6HG
OS grid reference
TM 198 597
Coordinates
52.19201, 1.21491
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Flinders Cottage is a house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with alterations made around 1800. It has one storey and attics and is designed as a three-cell open hall house. The structure is timber-framed and roughcast, topped with a plaintiled roof featuring gabled casement dormers from around 1800. There is an 18th-century axial chimney made of red brick and a 19th-century chimney at the right end. The cottage has 19th-century small-pane casements and a gabled entrance porch from the 19th or early 20th century, which includes a mid-20th century boarded door.

The open hall has undergone significant changes, with the original open truss removed. There is a blocked rear cross-entry doorway with a 4-centred arched head and signs of a spere. The front hall window, which has been blocked, originally featured six lights with some square mullions. The parlour cell contains large lodged floor joists and well-crafted close-studding with wind-bracing in a convex arch form. The roof structure is not visible. In the late 16th century, a chimney was added near the cross-entry, and an upper floor with chamfered joists was inserted in the hall. Around 1800, the service cell was extended to the left, and the partition containing two original service room doorways was repositioned.

Local climate

Flinders Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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