Bullshall Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bullshall Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-chancel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bullshall Cottage, Bulls Hall Road, Occold
- OS grid reference
- TM 164 701
- Coordinates
- 52.28727, 1.17151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bullshall Cottage is a former farmhouse that has been divided into two cottages. It dates back to the 16th century and was built in two phases. The structure is timber framed, mostly plastered, with the right gable end cement-rendered. It features a half-hipped thatched roof and stands two storeys tall, arranged in a three-cell cross-entry form. The cottage has various 20th-century small-paned casement windows, along with two 16th-century diamond-mullioned windows on the right gable end and another at the rear. There is a 20th-century semi-glazed entrance door and an additional mid-20th-century glazed door to the right.
Inside, there is an internal stack with a small square shaft and a small 19th-century stack against the left gable end. Lean-to additions are present at the rear, which may date from the 18th century or earlier, and against the left gable end. Much of the internal structure is exposed, with the hall featuring plain joists and a four-centre arched doorway by the stack. Beyond the hall is a later 1½-bay parlour addition, which has a ceiling with chamfered joists. The ceiling of the chamber above has been removed, except for a halved and reused moulded bridging beam. Both phases of the cottage have queen-post roofs, with the open tie beam in the later section supported by short arched braces.
Local climate
Bullshall Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 application
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