Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House.
Manor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-entrance-evening
- 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
- Manor Cottage, Lower Street, Rattlesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 978 589
- Coordinates
- 52.19306, 0.89349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century, built in two stages. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and roughcast, topped with a thatched roof that includes a 20th-century eyebrow casement dormer. There is an axial chimney, with the shaft rebuilt in 19th-century red brick. The windows are mid-20th-century casements, and there is a boarded door at the lobby-entrance position. Inside, the unmoulded framing from around 1600 is fully exposed, with unchamfered floor joists laid flat. The roof has clasped purlins. To the right of the chimney, there is a parlour cell that is a slightly later addition; the house may originally have been a two-cell end-chimney form.
Local climate
Manor 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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