Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. House.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-basalt-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Earl Stonham
- OS grid reference
- TM 098 598
- Coordinates
- 52.19681, 1.06911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a house built in two stages, during the mid 16th century and around 1600. It has a two-cell end-chimney plan and stands two storeys high. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with a pantiled roof that was likely originally thatched. There are external chimneys at both gables: a 16th or 17th century stack made of plastered brick on the right, which was recapped in the 20th century, and a 19th century stack of red brick on the left. The windows are 19th and 20th century casements, some featuring 20th century leaded lights. The entrance door is boarded and battened, dating from the 20th century. The framing is fully exposed, with the hall on the right showcasing heavy unchamfered joists and an open fireplace with a cambered lintel. Around 1600, the service cell on the left was enlarged, featuring chamfered floor joists and a clasped-purlin roof.
Local climate
Oak Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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