Valley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1981. House.
Valley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-plaster-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Valley Cottage, Eye Road, Aspall
- OS grid reference
- TM 168 655
- Coordinates
- 52.24519, 1.17502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Valley Cottage is a house with probable origins in the 18th century, which was altered and extended to the rear around 1800 to create an L-shaped plan. It was renovated in the early 1980s. The cottage features a timber frame with a random-pattern render dating from around 1980 and has a thatched roof. The front block is 1½ stories tall, while the rear is a single story. The front block includes two mid-20th century casement windows, and the roof is designed in a mansard style. The rear wing has a south-facing verandah that wraps around the gable end, with an overhanging roof supported by rustic timber posts. There are two sash windows with glazing bars and paired louvred shutters, and between these windows is a half-glazed door. Each wing of the house has an internal ridge stack. Valley Cottage is one of a pair of houses that are similar but not identical, located on opposite sides of the road, with the other house not being of special interest.
Local climate
Valley Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
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