Clare Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Clare Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-latch-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Clare Cottage, Coldham Lane, Gislingham, IP23 8JA
- OS grid reference
- TM 076 714
- Coordinates
- 52.30231, 1.0445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clare Cottage is a house dating from 1622, as indicated by the initials 'JH and DH' on the fireplace bressumer. It has been altered in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame, with plastered panels and weatherboarding, and is topped with a thatched roof. It consists of two cells with an end stack and is one storey high with an attic. The central entrance is located in a 20th-century thatched gabled porch, and there is an offset brick plinth. The cottage has 20th-century two-light lattice leaded casements and two raking two-light dormers. The right end has a rendered extruded stack with a rebuilt cap. Attached to the left end is a low weatherboarded service outshut with a hipped roof and a weatherboarded gable end. At the rear, there is a 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed addition. Inside, the cottage features a stop-chamfered fireplace bressumer with the original date and initials, as well as 'EA 1765' and 'TE 1785'. Other interior details include a chamfered axial binding beam, cranked arched bracing in the walls, and cambered collars clasping purlins with tension bracing across the rafters.
Local climate
Clare 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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