No. 5 Croft Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. Cottage.

No. 5 Croft Cottages

WRENN ID
hollow-rubble-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
No. 5 Croft Cottages, the Street, Wattisfield, IP22 1NS
OS grid reference
TM 010 742
Coordinates
52.32911, 0.94846
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

No. 5 Croft Cottages is a cottage that was formerly used as a shop, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with a thatched roof adorned with a decorated ridge on the main range, while the former shop has a clay pantile roof. The building is part one and a half storeys and part one storey with an attic. It has two eyebrow dormers with two-light single-bar casement windows, an old three-light single-bar casement window on the ground floor, and a small single-light window next to the plank door. There are remnants of pargetting in the apex of the right-hand gable. The former shop has a shallow-pitched roof, a small external chimney stack with a shaft in rat-trap bond, two gable end windows, and one three-light two-bar casement window on the front. The rear features various lean-to additions. The interior has a basic two-cell plan, which was later extended into the shop area. The timbering is rough and late in style, with a 20th-century replacement ceiling in the center room. The roof includes clasped side, purlins, and a ridge piece.

Local climate

No. 5 Croft 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. No. 4 Croft Cottages Grade II 15 m
  2. Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage Grade II 23 m
  3. Church of St Margaret Grade II* 29 m
  4. No. 1 Croft Cottages and the Cottage Grade II 37 m
  5. Chessil Holt Grade II 52 m
  6. Tudor Cottage Grade II 55 m
  7. Ivy Cottage Grade II 64 m
  8. The Limes Grade II 66 m
  9. Walnut Tree Cottage Grade II 84 m
  10. Street Farmhouse Grade II 106 m