White Cottage and Fraisnor is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
White Cottage and Fraisnor
- WRENN ID
- muted-steel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cottage and Fraisnor, the Heath, Hessett, IP30 9BJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 614
- Coordinates
- 52.21741, 0.82639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage and Fraisnor are two houses that were originally built as one farmhouse in the mid to late 16th century, with alterations made in the mid 20th century. The building has two storeys and features a three-cell cross-entry plan. It is constructed with a timber frame and roughcast exterior, topped with a plaintiled roof that is hipped at both ends. There is a central 16th-century chimney made of red brick and a 19th-century chimney on the left side. The White House has 20th-century casement windows, while Fraisnor has small-pane plastic casements from around 1980. Both houses have 20th-century boarded doors, with the left-hand door located at the cross-entry position.
Inside, the White House includes the cross-entry and a service cell, with twin service rooms that have been combined. The chamber above extends over the cross-entry, reaching as far as the chimney that backs onto it. The interior features exposed unmoulded 16th-century framing and unchamfered floor joists that are laid flat. Additionally, the house was extended to the left by one bay in the mid 20th century.
Local climate
White Cottage and Fraisnor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 16 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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