Christmas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. House.
Christmas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-rafter-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Christmas Cottage, the Street, Stowlangtoft
- OS grid reference
- TL 958 681
- Coordinates
- 52.27684, 0.86948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christmas Cottage is a house that likely dates back to the early 17th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring a two-cell end-chimney plan. The structure is timber framed and plastered, resting on a footing of flint and red brick. The roof is currently covered with asbestos slates, but it was once thatched, and the bargeboards display undulating soffits.
At the rear gable, there is a large external chimney made of narrow red bricks from the 17th century, while the front has an early 19th-century chimney of red brick, with the lower half painted. The cottage also includes a mid-20th-century flat-roofed casement dormer, various 20th-century casements, and a flat-roofed entrance porch made of red brick.
Local climate
Christmas 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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