Lodge Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Lodge Cottages
- WRENN ID
- patient-remnant-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lodge Cottages, Cake Street, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 295 741
- Coordinates
- 52.3176, 1.36708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lodge Cottages is a former farmhouse that has been converted into three cottages, dating back to the 16th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof, and stands two storeys high in a three-cell layout. It features five windows with 20th-century metal casements and three 20th-century doors, two of which are half-glazed while one is boarded. There is an internal stack, with the shaft rebuilt in the 19th century, and a gable stack on the left side. A 19th-century red brick lean-to is located on the left gable end. Although the interior has not been examined, it is noted that the right-hand cottage is said to have some moulded work in the ceiling of the ground floor room. Additionally, there are remains of a medieval moat surrounding the property.
Local climate
Lodge Cottages 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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