Verandah Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. House, guest house. 2 related planning applications.

Verandah Cottage

WRENN ID
roaming-gargoyle-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 July 1950
Type
House, guest house
Address
Verandah Cottage, 29, Ipswich Road, Stowmarket, IP14 1BD
OS grid reference
TM 051 582
Coordinates
52.1845, 0.99987
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Verandah Cottage is a house, now functioning as a guest house, dating from around 1730, with alterations made in the late 18th century and mid to late 19th century. The building features a rendered and colourwashed timber frame with slate roofs. The south front faces the garden and consists of two storeys with four bays. A 20th-century conservatory has been added to the right. To the left of the centre, there is a four-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed. Flanking the door are two late 18th-century 6/6 sash windows, and a French window is located at the far right. The first floor is lit by four late 18th-century 3/6 sash windows. The roof is gabled and hipped to the west, with three gault brick stacks placed at irregular intervals. An extension built in the late 19th century is made of brick and has two storeys, featuring a full-height canted bay facing south fitted with 2/2 sashes and a hipped slate roof. There are two gault brick stacks on the east roof slope. Inside, there is a stick baluster staircase with round newel posts. An attached cottage to the east has been altered and is not included in this listing.

Local climate

Verandah 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
  • 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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