Birch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. House.
Birch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-arch-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birch Cottage, Coddenham
- OS grid reference
- TM 125 568
- Coordinates
- 52.16939, 1.10611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a thatched roof with end chimneys; the south end chimney is scratch-dated 1746, while the other is from the 19th century. The cottage has a two-cell end-chimney plan and stands two storeys high. It includes small-pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries and a boarded entrance door. The framing is well-exposed throughout the building. The first floor structure was remodeled and partly raised in the 18th century, with most joists renewed. The roof is a complete wind-braced clasped-purlin type, and there is arch-braced studwork present.
Local climate
Birch 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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