Valley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. Farmhouse.
Valley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-string-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Valley Cottage, Horham
- OS grid reference
- TM 212 722
- Coordinates
- 52.30338, 1.24368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Valley Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from the first half of the 17th century, with additions made in the mid-20th century on the right side. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. It has two storeys and follows a three-cell, lobby entry layout. There are three windows featuring a mix of 19th and 20th century casements. A 20th century gabled porch leads to a boarded and battened door. Inside, there is an internal stack with a small shaft, and the interior has been modernised while exposing the main components of the frame. Both the hall and parlour include axial bridging beams and plain joists. The roof structure consists of butt and clasped purlins with arched wind bracing.
Local climate
Valley Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings