Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Cottage.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
pale-paling-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
Cottage
Address
Church Cottage, the Street, Wilby
OS grid reference
TM 241 720
Coordinates
52.30058, 1.28651
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage was originally three cottages but has been converted into a single dwelling. It consists of two sections. The right-hand section dates from the mid-18th century and was formerly a pair of cottages. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring panels of ropework pargetting at the front, most of which was renewed in the mid-20th century. The roof is thatched, and the building has two storeys with three windows, primarily 19th-century casements, and two boarded doors. There is a central axial stack.

The left-hand section is dated 'EB 1797' and is made of colourwashed brick with a thatched roof. This section also has two storeys and two windows: on the ground floor, there are three and four-light small-paned casements under segmental arches, while the first floor features three-light square-leaded windows. There are two doorways with four-panel raised and fielded doors, one of which is a half-door (now blocked) that may have originally led into a workshop. There is a gable stack to the right and a single-storey lean-to addition on the left.

Local climate

Church Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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