Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-quoin-cream
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, the Green, Tostock, IP30 9NY
- OS grid reference
- TL 953 637
- Coordinates
- 52.23729, 0.8602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a cottage dated 1677. It is one storey with attics and has a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring original raised roughcast panels on the upper part of the front wall. Above the entrance, there is an oval cartouche displaying the initials S.C.P. and the date 1677, created with pebbles. The roof is covered with pantiles, and there is an axial chimney with a shaft that was rebuilt in 19th-century red brick. The cottage has 19th-century small-pane casements. The doorway is located at the lobby-entrance position and features a 19th-century doorframe with a mid-20th-century half-glazed panelled door. To the right of the cottage, there is a lean-to extension from the 19th or 20th century.
Local climate
Oak 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 8 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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