Ripley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ripley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-stair-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ripley Cottage, Brome and Oakley, IP21 4AX
- OS grid reference
- TM 158 767
- Coordinates
- 52.34606, 1.16698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ripley Cottage is a house dating to the first half of the 17th century. It is timber-framed, now with modern textured plasterwork on the exterior. The roof is clad in painted corrugated metal, concealing a layer of thatch. The house is two storeys high and originally comprised three rooms arranged in a lobby-entry plan. It has two windows, each with two lights and small panes of glass. The ground floor windows are detailed with bracketed drip moulds. A mid-20th century gabled porch with a boarded and battened door has been added. An internal stack with an oblong shaft, likely original, remains. A one-storey addition is situated on the left side. Inside, the hall’s floor joists are set flat, while the parlour’s floor joists are on-edge or square. Plain first floor studding is present, along with a newel stair.
Local climate
Ripley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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