The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
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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
The Cottage, Crossing Road, Palgrave
OS grid reference
TM 118 784
Coordinates
52.36314, 1.10963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, which has been altered and extended in the early to mid 19th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and scored to resemble ashlar, with extensions in red brick and pantiled roofs. The building has a two-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high with an attic.

On the ground floor, there is a central entrance located in a close gabled porch addition with a slate roof, flanked by shallow three-light bay windows that have arched heads for each light and hipped tiled heads. The first floor has three-light casements in moulded flush frames, with a small two-pane window in the center. At the top of the building, there is an axial cement rendered stack on the ridge. The main range features 20th-century bargeboards on its steeply pitched gable ends.

To the right, there is a lower 19th-century bay that has 10:10 margin glazed moulded flush frame sashes, with an extruded stack with offsets at the right end. At the rear, there is a 19th-century red brick wing that extends from the center, featuring recessed segmental headed sashes and a ridge stack, along with flanking lean-to outshuts. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The 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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