The Blacksmith's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. A C16 House.
The Blacksmith's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-paling-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Blacksmith's Cottage, the Street, Drinkstone, IP30 9SR
- OS grid reference
- TL 958 619
- Coordinates
- 52.22105, 0.86563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blacksmith's Cottage is a house, likely built in the late 16th century or earlier, and constructed in two stages. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-entry plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with the higher parlour block on the left having a half-hipped roof. There is an axial chimney made of 17th-century red brick. The cottage includes a 19th-century gabled thatched dormer with serpentine bargeboard soffits and a drop finial, as well as 19th-century small-pane casements and two boarded entrance doors. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
The Blacksmith's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 2004
- No related consent applications matched
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