Waterwell Cottage and 4, Kiln Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. A C16 House. 1 related planning application.

Waterwell Cottage and 4, Kiln Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-sentry-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Waterwell Cottage and 4, Kiln Farm Cottage, Candle Street, Rickingham Superior, Rickinghall Superior, IP22 1LW
OS grid reference
TM 038 744
Coordinates
52.33035, 0.99096
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Waterwell Cottage and 4, Kiln Farm Cottage is a house that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the mid-16th century, with extensions added in the 17th or 18th century, and has been altered and cased in the 20th century. The structure features a timber frame, mostly covered in Fletton brick, with some areas plastered, and it has thatched roofs.

The building consists of three bays, with an internal end stack and a smaller two-bay parlour addition. It is two storeys high. The main entrance to the garden has a boarded door, likely in its original cross entry position to the right of centre. There is a second entrance into the parlour addition on the left, which is lower and narrower with a shallower roof pitch. The windows are 20th-century two- and three-light metal frame casements. An axial ridge stack is located at the original upper end to the left, and there are added external stacks at the gable ends. At the rear, there is a boarded lean-to from the service bay and two pantiled lean-tos from the addition, which includes a first-floor two-light casement window in plaster.

Inside, much of the frame is concealed, but there are jowled storey posts, a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, and a roll and hollow moulded fireplace bressumer in the hall. The first-floor hall chamber features an open truss with a chamfered cambered tie beam and arched braces that have been removed, along with closed truss reverse curved arched braces. The added bays have not been inspected.

Local climate

Waterwell Cottage and 4, Kiln Farm 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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