Priory Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. A C17 House.
Priory Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- empty-panel-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Priory Farm Cottages, A143, Palgrave
- OS grid reference
- TM 115 783
- Coordinates
- 52.36265, 1.10544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Farm Cottages is a house that has been converted into three dwellings. It dates back to the 17th century and features a timber frame that is plastered, with pantiled roofs. The building is arranged in an L shape, consisting of a four-cell front range with a one-cell return to the right, which extends to the rear with a two-bay kitchen range. It has two storeys at the front and one storey with an attic at the rear.
The front of the building has two doors: a boarded door in the center and a half-glazed door to the left. There are also three-by-three light 19th-century part-opening metal frame casements with hoodboards on the ground floor. A rebuilt ridge stack is located to the left of the center, and there is an external stack added to the left end. The right return has a hip roof, a boarded door, and similar casements. At the junction with the lower range, there is a large early red brick stack with multiform features and tiled offsets. The lower range includes a gabled dormer and later outshuts, as well as a lean-to outshut added to the rear of the main range.
Inside, much of the frame is concealed, but there are axial and cross axial stop-chamfered binding beams.
Local climate
Priory Farm 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 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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