Benedict Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Benedict Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-loft-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Benedict Cottage, Russel's Green, Wilby, IP21 5LX
- OS grid reference
- TM 255 722
- Coordinates
- 52.30225, 1.30662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Benedict Cottage is a house that likely dates back to the 14th century, with alterations and additions made in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is timber framed, mostly plastered, and features a thatched roof. The building has one and a half storeys and includes three 19th-century casement windows. The entrance door is half-glazed and centrally located, and there are two eyebrow dormers. Small gable stacks are present, with the one on the left being external. The frame consists of four bays, with a two-bay former open hall on the right, although the open truss has been removed. There are signs of an extra tie beam on each side of the open truss, indicating a 14th-century origin. The inserted floor has chamfered joists with run-out stops, and the left-hand bay is likely a later addition.
Local climate
Benedict 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 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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