2 Cottages Immediately North of the Hemp Sheaf (Occupied by Mr. Pearl and Mr. Browning) is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Cottage.
2 Cottages Immediately North of the Hemp Sheaf (Occupied by Mr. Pearl and Mr. Browning)
- WRENN ID
- muffled-plinth-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 2 Cottages Immediately North of the Hemp Sheaf (Occupied by Mr. Pearl and Mr. Browning), Queen Street, Stradbroke
- OS grid reference
- TM 230 742
- Coordinates
- 52.32077, 1.27132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of cottages located immediately north of The Hemp Sheaf, occupied by Mr. Pearl and Mr. Browning. They date from the early to mid-18th century and are constructed with a timber frame, roughcast render, and a thatched roof. The cottages are two storeys tall and feature four windows, which are 20th-century metal casements with small panes, along with 20th-century doors. There is a heavy central chimney stack and smaller gable stacks, all rendered over. The cottages were purpose-built as a handed pair, with the left cottage remaining relatively unaltered internally. The framing includes straight primary braces, and the floor beams have grooved stop-chamfers with small square joists. A later range to the right is a separate dwelling and is not of special interest. These cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
2 Cottages Immediately North of the Hemp Sheaf (Occupied by Mr. Pearl and Mr. Browning) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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