The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-truss-nightshade
- 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 Cottage, Green Hill, Woolpit
- OS grid reference
- TL 974 623
- Coordinates
- 52.22412, 0.88902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house with a core dating from the 15th century, featuring early or mid-16th century and mid-19th century alterations. It is timber-framed and has been encased at the front in painted 19th century brick. The roof is pantiled and includes a central 19th century chimney made of red brick. The building has two storeys and two windows. On the first storey, there are two 19th century casement windows with leaded lights. The ground storey has a small-pane sash window with a flush frame and a segmental head. The entrance doorway, which is from the 19th century, features a six-panelled door dating to around 1980. The Cottage was originally built as an open hall and is connected to the adjacent crosswing, which is now a separate dwelling known as Tyrells. Inside, there are good early 16th century moulded ceiling beams and joists.
Local climate
The 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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