Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. House.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-doorway-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage, 32, Needham Road, Stowmarket
- OS grid reference
- TM 052 577
- Coordinates
- 52.17956, 1.00049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a pair of houses, now combined into one, dating from around 1730. The building features a timber frame set on a brick plinth, with weatherboarding beneath a pantiled roof. It has one storey and a dormer attic. The north front displays two sash windows with 6/6 glazing bars located next to two four-panelled doors. There is a moulded eaves cornice beneath a mansard roof. The roof has two sloping dormers, although one is missing; the remaining dormer is fitted with a two-light casement window. A central ridge stack is adorned with gault brick dressings. At the rear, there is a late 20th-century breeze block extension and two dormers in the roof. Inside, there are stairs beside the stack in No. 30 and in the east end wall of No. 32. The interior features a close studded frame and a roof supported by principals, collars, and one tier of butt purlins.
Local climate
Oak 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 90% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
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