St John's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
St John's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-hall-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- St John's Cottage, Skinner's Lane, Metfield, IP20 0LH
- OS grid reference
- TM 292 802
- Coordinates
- 52.37263, 1.366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, built in two phases, with the right-hand cell being the earlier part. It features a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof, and is 1 and a half stories tall with a two-cell layout. The cottage has 20th-century casement windows, including a large one on the right side, and two small gabled dormers. The entrance door is boarded, and there is a central axial stack.
Local climate
St John's 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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