Skeets Green Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 2002. Cottage.
Skeets Green Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-ledge-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 2002
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Skeets Green Cottage, Barham Green
- OS grid reference
- TM 140 521
- Coordinates
- 52.126, 1.12624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Skeets Green Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located in Barham. It features a rendered timber-frame construction with a thatched roof and a projecting brick stack on the right gable end. The cottage has a two-unit cross-passage plan and is a single storey with an attic. The central entrance is a plank door, flanked by a two-light casement window on the left and a 20th-century window on the right. The exterior displays 20th-century decorative pargetting in panels, and there is a central eyebrow dormer with a small two-light casement.
To the right, there is a large projecting stack and a small lean-to with an attic single-light window. The left end has a wooden lean-to with a pantile roof and a two-light casement above it. At the rear, there is another two-light casement and a small wooden lean-to with a plank door. The eyebrow dormer at the rear also features a small two-light casement.
Inside, the cottage has tall panel framing with diagonal braces and massive wall posts that support bridging beams. There is an open fireplace with a bressumer, which has been slightly modified with a mantelpiece in front. The cottage also retains an early staircase and the original roof now has a plank ridge. This cottage is notably small for its period and remains unusually little altered.
Local climate
Skeets Green Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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