Abbey Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Abbey Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-cloister-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey Farm Cottage, Woolpit, IP30 9RQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 976 613
- Coordinates
- 52.21516, 0.89247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Farm Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is a two-story building with a lobby-entrance plan, originally consisting of two rooms. The house has a timber frame with plastered walls and a thatched roof. The chimney is situated along the central axis and was rebuilt in the 19th century using red brick. The left-hand gable reveals evidence of reversed-assembly during a previous repair or reconstruction. The windows are predominantly 3-light casements dating from the 18th or early 19th century. A mid-20th century thatched gabled porch, fully glazed, has been added to the entrance, featuring a half-glazed panelled door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Abbey Farm 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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