Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-threshold-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Spring Cottage, 37, Gracechurch Street, Debenham, IP14 6RE
- OS grid reference
- TM 171 632
- Coordinates
- 52.22489, 1.17751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage consists of two houses dating from the 17th century, built in two phases. The buildings are timber framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof. They are arranged in two cells and have one and a half storeys. The houses feature various casement windows, mostly from the 19th century. No. 39 has a standard mid-20th century window on the ground floor and one gabled dormer, while No. 37 has a plank door and No. 39 has a semi-glazed four-panel door. There is a small 19th-century pantiled addition on the right, part of No. 39. An internal stack has a 19th-century red brick shaft.
Inside, No. 37 is divided into two bays with irregular studding that is quite widely spaced and plain joists set flat. It has a side purlin roof. No. 39, a mid-17th-century addition, features plain studding and joists with a common rafter roof. There is an open fireplace on the ground floor, with a chimney made of stud and plaster, which is a rare survival.
Local climate
Spring 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- 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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