Star Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Star Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-corner-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Star Cottage, Combs, IP14 2EY
- OS grid reference
- TM 042 550
- Coordinates
- 52.15562, 0.98474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Star Cottage is a house dating back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is a two-cell open hall house. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The roof features two 19th-century eyebrow dormers. Red brick chimneys, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, are visible externally at each end. The windows are 19th-century small-pane casements. A 20th-century glazed entrance door is protected by an open, lean-to porch with a pantile roof supported on posts. It is a modest example of a late open hall house. The roof appears smoke-blackened, with later side purlins, but originally had coupled rafters and was hipped at the ends. The visible timber framing is plain. An open truss was removed during the 17th or 18th century, and its tie beam was subsequently reused to support an inserted upper floor.
Local climate
Star Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1997
- 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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