2, Manor Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

2, Manor Lane

WRENN ID
dark-attic-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
2, Manor Lane, Gosbeck
OS grid reference
TM 154 557
Coordinates
52.15791, 1.14797
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 2 is a cottage dating from the 17th century, featuring one storey and attics with a two-cell end-chimney plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with the left gable encased in painted brick. It has a pantiled roof that was once thatched, and an external chimney made of painted red brick, likely from the 18th or early 19th century. The cottage includes an early 19th-century three-light small-pane casement window and a matching half-glazed panelled entrance door. There is evidence that a further cell may have been removed from the left-hand end, as the existing ground storey room shows signs of a pair of missing widely-spaced posts that may have been associated with a smoke-bay. In the main room, the joists are large, unchamfered, and possibly reused, while in the former smoke bay, the joists are on-edge and likely a later addition. The roof is a clasped-purlin design, and there is a small single-storey extension at the rear from the 19th century.

Local climate

2, Manor Lane 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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