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
- distant-transept-indigo
- 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
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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