Shoemakers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. House.
Shoemakers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-roof-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shoemakers Cottage, Aspall
- OS grid reference
- TM 167 647
- Coordinates
- 52.23827, 1.17266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shoemakers Cottage is a house from the first half of the 17th century. It features a timber frame with a cement-rendered facade, while the rest of the exterior is plastered. The cottage has a thatched roof and is 1½ storeys high, designed in a 2-cell, lobby entry style. There are two windows on the front, which are 20th-century metal casements with small panes, and a mid-20th-century glazed door. The building has two large eyebrow dormers that contain similar windows to those on the ground floor. The chimney stack has a tall rendered oblong shaft. Inside, there is intact plain studding, and the wall braces are visible on the exterior. The ground floor features plain joists set flat in the two rooms, a blocked fireplace with the original lintel, and a newel stair.
Local climate
Shoemakers Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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