America 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.
America Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-obsidian-holly
- 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
- America Cottage, Bildeston Road, Combs, IP14 2LB
- OS grid reference
- TM 026 554
- Coordinates
- 52.15973, 0.9606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
America Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with some rebuilding that occurred around 1950. It has a three-cell plan and stands two storeys tall. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, featuring an oversailing tiebeam on the left-hand gable of the parlour block. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and there is an axial chimney made of red brick from the 17th century, which has a sawtooth shaft. The windows are small-pane casements, with those on the left dating from the 19th or 20th century and those on the right dating from around 1950. There is also a 20th-century gabled entrance porch, which has a glazed panelled door.
Local climate
America 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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