New Bells Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. House.

New Bells Cottage

WRENN ID
low-vestry-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1988
Type
House
Address
New Bells Cottage, New Bells Road, Haughley
OS grid reference
TM 030 642
Coordinates
52.23873, 0.97267
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

New Bells Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century, built in two stages. It has a three-cell plan and stands two storeys high. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof that was once thatched. There are two axial chimneys made of red brick; one has a rebuilt mid-20th century shaft, while the other dates from the 19th century. The windows are mainly early 20th century, three-light casements, with two 18th century casements on the first storey. The entrance features a 20th century framed and boarded door with a cantilevered canopy made of plain tiles.

At the right-hand end of the cottage, there is a two-bay section that includes an open truss at the gable, indicating it may have originally extended further to the right. The main section of the house, built around 1570, showcases good unmoulded framing, including a cambered arch-braced tie-beam, chamfered floor joists laid flat, and a lintelled open fireplace. There is also part of a cross-passage screen featuring planks and chamfered muntins.

Local climate

New Bells Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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