Sunnyside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. A Early Modern House. 1 related planning application.

Sunnyside Cottage

WRENN ID
tangled-stronghold-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1987
Type
House
Period
Early Modern
Address
Sunnyside Cottage, Lows Lane, Palgrave, IP22 1AE
OS grid reference
TM 115 787
Coordinates
52.36577, 1.10574
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sunnyside Cottage is a house dating back to 1604, with extensions built in the 18th century. The original core is timber-framed and plastered, with an extension in clay lump. The roof is thatched, with pantiles covering the extension. The house originally comprised two rooms, later extended to the right with a kitchen bay. It is a single storey building with an attic. The front entrance is towards the right side, featuring a recessed, boarded door with a hoodboard. More recent casement windows and gabled dormers, some with two or three lights, are visible, along with an earlier casement at the rear. An internal stack is located at the right end, while an external stack to the left is a later addition. The kitchen bay has been raised to accommodate an attic, with a catslide roof covering a lean-to outshut at the rear. Inside, the cottage retains features of the original timber framing, including deeply chamfered axial binding beams, tension braces, jowled posts, and a collar purlin roof.

Local climate

Sunnyside Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
  • 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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