Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Elm Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-pavement-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Elm Cottage, the Street, Rickinghall Superior, IP22 1DY
OS grid reference
TM 044 755
Coordinates
52.33955, 1.00025
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Cottage is a house that was later divided into two dwellings. It dates from the early 17th century, and possibly even earlier, with a casing from the 19th century. The structure features a timber frame with a red brick casing and has a steeply pitched pantiled roof. The layout is a broad three-cell plan, consisting of one storey and an attic.

The front of the house has a raised four-panelled door on the left, which serves as a lobby entry, and a three-panelled door on the right, acting as a cross entry. There are 12-pane fixed casements in the centre and to the right, with red and white brick cambered heads above the openings. To the left, or parlour end, there are two 20th-century two-light casements. The building has an offset plinth, boxed eaves, and three two-light dormers.

An axial ridge stack is located to the left of centre, positioned between the hall and parlour, featuring a recessed panelled base and three conjoined diagonally set shafts with sawtooth returns. The left end has 18th-century brickwork below a rendered gable, while the right end is made of 19th-century brick and includes an attic two-light window, with exposed plates and purlins. The roof pitch has been altered at the rear. There is also a one-storey and attic wing at the rear centre. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Elm Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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