Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. House, cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- seventh-banister-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1988
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Church Cottages, 1 and 2, Church Road, Battisford, IP14 2HQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 054 543
- Coordinates
- 52.14904, 1.00216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottages, originally two cottages, were built around 1550 and extended around 1600. The building is two storeys high, with some attic space. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered, with 19th-century scratched panels that mimic ashlar stonework. The roof is thatched and has a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick, which has been almost completely rebuilt in the 19th century. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries, and there is a mid-20th-century framed and boarded door at the lobby entrance.
The right side of the building retains elements from the original 1550-1580 construction, including some reused timber members from around 1530. Notably, a pair of posts is carved with brattishing at the jowl, supporting a moulded first-floor beam. The framing on this side is unmoulded, featuring tension stud-braced studding and a clasped purlin roof. The left side of the building, added around 1600, includes a two-bay parlour cell with well-crafted close studding and a wind-braced clasped purlin roof. This phase also introduced a chimney with a lintelled open fireplace and an arched chamber fireplace.
Local climate
Church Cottages 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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