Monks Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Monks Park Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-bastion-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Monks Park Cottage, Cockfield Road, Felsham, IP30 0QP
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 564
- Coordinates
- 52.17279, 0.8239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks Park Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is one storey high with attics and has a three-cell plan. The cottage is timber framed and roughcast, topped with a thatched roof featuring one eyebrow casement dormer. There is an axial chimney made of 17th or 18th century red brick. The windows are small-paned casements from the 19th or 20th century, and there is a modern entrance door located at the side. The building displays good framing for its period, with primary-braced close-studding.
Local climate
Monks Park Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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