Numbers 1 and 2 Hilltop with Cook's Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 1 and 2 Hilltop with Cook's Stores
- WRENN ID
- calm-mantel-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 1 and 2 Hilltop with Cook's Stores, the Street, Botesdale
- OS grid reference
- TM 048 759
- Coordinates
- 52.34359, 1.0066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1 and 2 Hilltop, which includes Cook's Stores, is a house that has been converted into two dwellings with a shop. It was built in the early 19th century and underwent alterations in the 20th century. The structure is made of clay lump on a brick plinth, with slate cladding on the front secured by iron bolts and a rendered finish. The roof is slate.
The building has three sections and is two storeys high. On the ground floor, the entrance is located to the left of the centre and features steps leading up to a recessed area with a raised fielded six-panel door, a lattice traceried fanlight, and a reeded architrave with lozenges in the frieze and a cornice. Flanking this entrance are 19th-century metal frame oriel windows arranged in a 1:3:1 light configuration. To the right is the shop entrance, which has a recessed half-glazed door with a reeded architrave similar to the entrance on the left, and a large shop window consisting of nine panes arranged in a five-pane central section that is slightly bowed, topped with a reeded architrave and cornice.
On the first floor, there are three 20th-century three-light casements, and a triglyph frieze is present at the eaves. The building features an internal stack at the left end and a ridge stack to the right of centre. There is also an added external stack at the right end, which is part of an original brick and pantiled lean-to that includes part of the shopfront and a door. At the rear, there is a catslide roof over a continuous lean-to, which contains a one-storey and attic wing with two-light casements, a loft door, and a pantiled roof. The interior includes iron joists.
Local climate
Numbers 1 and 2 Hilltop with Cook's Stores sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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