Huntsman and Hounds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. House, former public house. 2 related planning applications.
Huntsman and Hounds Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-rubble-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- House, former public house
- Address
- Huntsman and Hounds Cottage, the Street, Metfield, IP20 0LB
- OS grid reference
- TM 294 802
- Coordinates
- 52.37241, 1.36972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Huntsman and Hounds Cottage is a house, later used as a public house, with an early 16th-century core and significant alterations and additions made in later centuries. The house is timber-framed and mostly covered with roughcast rendering. It has a pantiled roof, hipped on the left-hand side. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with the original section set at right angles to the road. It is two storeys high and has three windows. The ground floor windows are small-paned sashes, while the first-floor windows are 19th-century casements. There are two internal chimney stacks, one located in the rear range. A boarded half-door is found within a small addition that projects forward on the left. The original range has been raised, and a secondary diamond-mullioned window is visible on the ground floor, with evidence of the original mullions located above it. A section on the right-hand side of the front range was added in the late 17th century. A ground-floor fireplace lintol in one room is inscribed "BENJAMIN EDWARDES OCTO YE 1 1663," while an 18th-century fireplace with an eared surround is found in the opposite room.
Local climate
Huntsman and Hounds Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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