Estate Cottages Numbers 17 and 18 is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1995. Cottages.
Estate Cottages Numbers 17 and 18
- WRENN ID
- ragged-passage-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1995
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Estate Cottages Numbers 17 and 18, Helmingham
- OS grid reference
- TM 186 570
- Coordinates
- 52.1686, 1.19585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Estate Cottages numbers 17 and 18 are a pair of cottages built around 1840, possibly designed by Anthony Salvin, who was active at Helmingham Hall around 1841. They are constructed of brick in Flemish bond and feature a moulded brick stack on the party wall. The cottages have pantile roofs with ornamental vergeboards on the gables and half dormers, along with slightly swept eaves. They are two storeys high and have an outshut at the rear. The elevation of these cottages is the exact inverse of numbers 15 and 16. The doors retain their original design, and the ground-floor windows on the right side of the facing gable and to the right of the party wall have glazing in an authentic pattern. The cottages exhibit a picturesque style that combines vernacular forms with elements of the 'cottage orne' tradition. They are part of a group that includes cottages 3-8, 15-20, the Estate Yard, the Old Post Office near the crossroads to the north, and the Old Forge.
Local climate
Estate Cottages Numbers 17 and 18 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 83% 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.
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