Southmore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Southmore Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-wall-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Southmore Cottage, Long Green, Wortham, IP22 1PU
- OS grid reference
- TM 079 772
- Coordinates
- 52.35351, 1.05136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southmore Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, which has been extended and altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a thatched roof. The building consists of three small cells and is two storeys high. The original entrance, which faces the green, is located to the right of the centre and includes a glazed door set in a gabled porch with a bargeboard and a slate roof. The windows are 2 and 3 light leaded casements from the 20th century. There is a ridge stack positioned to the left of the centre.
To the right, a lower whitewashed brick bay has been added for service use, featuring a half-glazed door and 3-light glazing bar casements, along with an asbestos tiled roof and an internal end stack. On the left side, there is a lean-to conservatory. At the rear, there is an entrance into the service end, which includes an open trellissed gabled porch. Extending from the rear left is a low addition with a pantiled roof, also from the 20th century.
Inside, much of the framing is concealed, but there are stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams, moulded jowled posts, and cambered tie beams.
Local climate
Southmore 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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