Crouch Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse, cottage.
Crouch Cottages
- WRENN ID
- broken-frieze-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Crouch Cottages, Cake Street, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 276 735
- Coordinates
- 52.3129, 1.33874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crouch Cottages is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages. It dates back to the 16th century and features a timber frame with roughcast render. The roof is tiled with plain tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-cell form. It includes various casement windows, with one original window that has cavetto mullions. The entrance door is from the 20th century. There is a square axial stack and a later external stack at the right gable end. Inside, the hall is divided into two unequal bays, with a bridging beam and joists that display unusually ornate triple stop-chamfers. The bridging beam in the parlour is moulded, but most of the structure is concealed, and the upper floor has not been examined.
Local climate
Crouch Cottages 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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