Field Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Field Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-lancet-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Field Cottage, School Lane, Metfield, IP20 0LJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 292 804
- Coordinates
- 52.37427, 1.36707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Field Cottage is a house dating from around 1500. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof, and has one and a half storeys. The cottage features various old casement windows and a boarded entrance door on the left side. There is an internal stack, and it was originally an open hall house with living space at each end. A 17th-century floor has been inserted, with chamfered joists laid flat. Although the tie beam of the former open truss has been removed, there is said to be evidence of a queen-post roof.
Local climate
Field 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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