Iron Gates and Lavendar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1971. House.

Iron Gates and Lavendar Cottage

WRENN ID
pale-pediment-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 October 1971
Type
House
Address
Iron Gates and Lavendar Cottage, Brome Avenue, Eye
OS grid reference
TM 145 750
Coordinates
52.33114, 1.14785
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Iron Gates and Lavendar Cottage are two houses built around 1630-1640. They feature a plastered and colourwashed timber frame sitting on a brick plinth, topped with a roof of corrugated tiles. The buildings are two storeys high and have a three-window range.

Iron Gates, the southern house, has two 20th-century Crittall windows on the ground floor, flanking a glazed 20th-century porch, and one Crittall window on the first floor. Lavendar Cottage, the northern house, has a late 20th-century stable door with a three-light late 20th-century casement window on either side. The first floor has two 19th-century three-light casement windows. The gabled roof features a central ridge stack and an external gable-end stack on the north side, along with two Velux roof lights in Lavendar Cottage. The south gable and a two-storey rear wing are fitted with Crittall casements.

Inside Lavendar Cottage, the timber frame has moderate scantling and jowled principal studs. The ground-floor room to the south has a diamond-stopped chamfered bridging beam and a wide inglenook fireplace beneath a plain bressumer. The roof structure includes clasped purlins and curved windbraces.

Local climate

Iron Gates and Lavendar 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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