The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- 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
- The Cottage, Bacton, IP14 4HP
- OS grid reference
- TM 060 666
- Coordinates
- 52.2591, 1.01822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, featuring two storeys and a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, and has an asbestos slated roof that was originally thatched. The house has an axial chimney, with its shaft rebuilt in 19th century red and gault brick. The windows are mid-20th century casements. There is a lean-to entrance porch with Roman pantiles and a glazed door at the lobby-entrance position. The framing is unmoulded and of late 16th or early 17th century style, with unchamfered floor joists laid flat, complete studding, and a clasped purlin roof. Inside, there are back-to-back open fireplaces. The house incorporates many timbers that have been reused from a medieval structure, including a significant cambered tiebeam from the central truss of an open hall, along with evidence of a pair of large archbraces and a queenpost roof.
Local climate
The 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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