Oak Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. Cottage.
Oak Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-barrel-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Tree Cottage, Lower Oakley, Brome and Oakley
- OS grid reference
- TM 158 778
- Coordinates
- 52.35652, 1.16765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with a mid-19th century addition set back to the left. The older part of the cottage is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It has one and a half storeys and a two-cell layout. The cottage features 19th century casement windows and a 20th century door at the rear. There is an internal stack with a small square shaft. The one-bay mid-19th century addition is constructed of colourwashed brick and has a pantiled roof. This addition has two storeys and features three-light small-paned casement windows with segmental arches and brick hoodmoulds. Inside, the main room has a floorbeam dated 1664 and heavy plain joists, while the right-hand cell has smaller joists. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with a ridge piece. The building was under renovation at the time of the survey in May 1986.
Local climate
Oak Tree 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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