Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 2002. Cottage.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-kitchen-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 2002
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Cottage, Lower Street, Rattlesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 978 590
- Coordinates
- 52.19427, 0.89361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Lower Street in Rattlesden. It features a rendered and colorwashed timber frame with a thatched roof and a central brick ridge stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan, likely originally designed with a lobby entry. On the façade, there is a two-light window to the left, a three-light window to the right, and a plank door beyond. Above, an eyebrow dormer contains a three-light leaded casement window. There is a garage extension at the left end and attic windows in the gables.
Inside, the cottage showcases tall-panel framing with braces and heavier wall posts, along with bridging beams and joists. An open fireplace with a bressumer and hood is present, with a small stair located behind the stack that divides the space. The original roof rafters are visible up to the collar level, and there are plank doors throughout. This cottage has seen little alteration and forms a group with the nearby Church of St. Nicholas.
Local climate
Willow 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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