Numbers 2 and 3, Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Cottage.

Numbers 2 and 3, Church Cottages

WRENN ID
scattered-niche-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Numbers 2 and 3, Church Cottages, Aspall
OS grid reference
TM 167 650
Coordinates
52.24058, 1.17258
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 2 and 3, Church Cottages, were originally one house but are now two separate cottages. This building dates back to the 16th century and features a two-cell end-chimney range with later 17th and 18th-century additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a pebbledash render, topped with a pantiled roof. The cottages are one and a half storeys tall and have small-paned metal-framed casement windows from the 20th century, along with one gabled dormer and three boarded doors. Inside, there are two internal stacks, with the older stack located to the right and featuring a rendered shaft. The 16th-century part of the building includes a hall and service cells, where the hall displays chamfered cross-beams and a bridging beam with solid braces to the wallposts, although one brace is missing. The left side of the hall, found in No. 3, has heavy plain joists, while the adjacent service cell, also in No. 3, has exposed plain joists. The rest of the structure is largely hidden from view. The addition to the right of the main stack is likely from the 17th century, while the addition to the left dates from the 18th century.

Local climate

Numbers 2 and 3, Church Cottages 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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