Red Lion Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. A C16 House.

Red Lion Cottage

WRENN ID
forgotten-brick-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1988
Type
House
Address
Red Lion Cottage, Great Bricett
OS grid reference
TM 041 500
Coordinates
52.11101, 0.97926
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Red Lion Cottage is a house dating from around 1570, featuring two storeys and a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It has a 16th or 17th century axial chimney made of red brick, with the shaft largely rebuilt in the 19th or 20th century. The cottage includes 20th century casements and a boarded entrance door, along with a 20th century pantiled verandah supported by posts. The late 16th century framing is fully exposed and typical of the period. There is evidence of diamond-mullioned shuttered windows, with one window having a blocked ovolo-mullioned window inserted into it. Inside, the cottage features a wind-braced clasped purlin roof and a lintelled open fireplace from the 17th century in the hall.

Local climate

Red Lion Cottage 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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