Pond Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Pond Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-cellar-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pond Cottage, Rectory Road, Wortham, IP22 1SS
- OS grid reference
- TM 089 788
- Coordinates
- 52.36812, 1.06746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pond Cottage is a house, which has been divided into three dwellings, dating from the mid to late 17th century and altered in the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The building originally featured a plan with three cells and possibly a cross passage. It has one storey and an attic, with the entrance located at the far left and a blocked entrance to the right of centre. The windows are two-light glazing bar casements, each with timber hood moulds. There are four dormers, each with two-light glazing bars and finialed, bargeboarded gables. An axial ridge stack, located to the left of centre, has multiple diagonally set shafts and has been rebuilt. The right gable end has an external stack that is rendered, with offsets leading to a rebuilt cap, and displays exposed plates and purlins along with bargeboards. At the rear, there is a continuous lean-to addition with a pantiled roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Pond Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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