The Willows and Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. A C18 Dwellings. 2 related planning applications.
The Willows and Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-forge-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Dwellings
- Address
- The Willows and Lilac Cottage, Great Green, Burgate, IP22 1QL
- OS grid reference
- TM 081 762
- Coordinates
- 52.34471, 1.05427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Willows and Lilac Cottage is a pair of dwellings dating from the early 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th century. The buildings feature a timber frame, which has been extended with clay lump and plastered. They have a thatched roof, with pantiles used on the later additions. The structures consist of two broad cells with a central stack and are one storey high with an attic.
The entrances are located at the outer ends and have boarded doors. The windows are two-light glazing bar casements with hoodboards, and there are three dormers on the roof, two of which have gabled heads, while one features an eyebrow thatch. The axial ridge stack has been rebuilt. To the left, there is a 19th-century two-storey bay with two-light casements and an external end stack in a lean-to outshut. At the rear, there is a lean-to outshut addition and a 20th-century flat-roofed addition.
Inside, The Willows has a frame of small scantling, which is largely concealed, while Lilac Cottage has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Willows and Lilac 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 93% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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