Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. House.
Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-jade-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barn Cottage, Stowmarket Road, Wetherden
- OS grid reference
- TM 007 626
- Coordinates
- 52.22568, 0.93823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn Cottage is a house dating from the mid or late 16th century. It is two storeys high and features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with large late 20th century panels. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a central late 20th century chimney made of red brick. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th century. The entrance door is glazed and panelled, located in a late 20th century pantiled porch. The porch and the attached carport to the right are not of special interest.
Originally, Barn Cottage was part of the adjacent house, Rose Cottage, until they were divided in the 19th century. The interior consists of two cells; the left cell serves as a hall and features good moulded early 16th century ceiling joists and beams, which may have been reused, along with a well-preserved open lintelled fireplace. The close-studding is tension-braced. The right cell was added in the 18th century and has typical exposed framing. There is also a rear extension that dates from the 18th or 19th century, which was remodelled in the 20th century.
Local climate
Barn Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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