Low Barn Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. House.
Low Barn Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rood-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low Barn Cottages, Wetheringsett-Cum-Brockford
- OS grid reference
- TM 142 666
- Coordinates
- 52.25639, 1.13775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Barn Cottages is a former farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, dating from the 16th century. The building is timber framed and rendered, topped with a pantiled roof. It consists of three cells and stands two storeys high, featuring five 20th-century metal casement windows with horizontal glazing bars. There are two doorways, located in cross-entry and lobby-entry positions, both fitted with 20th-century semi-glazed doors. The internal stack has a rebuilt axial shaft, and there is a small 19th-century stack against the right gable end.
Inside, the hall features a chamfered bridging beam with long ogee stops and chamfered joists with run-out stops. The two-bay parlour has a ceiling with chamfered joists. A newel stair is located in front of the stack. Much of the frame is concealed, and the upper floor and roof have not been examined.
Local climate
Low Barn Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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