Guildhall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Cottages.
Guildhall Cottages
- WRENN ID
- high-plaster-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Guildhall Cottages, 4, the Street, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 295 723
- Coordinates
- 52.30145, 1.36586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guildhall Cottages are two cottages that date back to the 16th century, with an 18th-century addition on the left. No. 4 consists of the hall and parlour sections of the original 16th-century house, while No. 3 includes the service end and the later addition. The cottages are timber framed, with roughcast rendering on the front and cement render and weatherboards at the rear. They have a pantiled roof and are two stories tall. There are various casement windows, mostly old, and two boarded doors. No. 4 features two gabled dormers. The internal stack belongs to the 16th-century range, and there is a small gable stack for the later addition. The interiors have been largely modernized, with the ceiling of the parlour chamber supported by secondary upper crucks. The roof, which appears to have been of queen-post type, has been largely reconstructed. These cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
Guildhall Cottages 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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