Stott Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House. 5 related planning applications.
Stott Cottages
- WRENN ID
- plain-doorway-jay
- 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
- Stott Cottages, 1 and 2, Cross Street, Drinkstone, IP30 9TP
- OS grid reference
- TL 964 602
- Coordinates
- 52.2057, 0.87389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two houses, originally built as a single dwelling, were constructed in two phases during the 16th century. The building is two storeys high and follows a three-cell cross-entry plan. It has a timber frame with plaster infill and a cedar shingled roof, which was formerly thatched. A central chimney has a shaft rebuilt in red brick in the mid-20th century. Small-pane casement windows, dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, are present. Each house has a mid-20th century half-glazed entrance door, with the door on the right likely marking the original cross-entry position.
Inside, the parlour block on the left was added in the late 16th century to an earlier building which originally had a lower roofline; this roofline was raised in the 20th century. The framing is simple in both building phases, but the parlour block includes leaf-carved chamfer stops to a main beam. At the rear is a contemporary outshut designed to contain a staircase with four doorways, each featuring a 4-centred arched head. Three of these doorways have leaf-carved spandrels, and two have a carved cross above the head.
Local climate
Stott Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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