1 and 2 Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Cottage.

1 and 2 Church Cottages

WRENN ID
under-attic-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
1 and 2 Church Cottages, Elmswell Road, Great Ashfield
OS grid reference
TL 996 677
Coordinates
52.27123, 0.92452
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 1 and 2 Church Cottages are two houses that were originally built as one in the 17th century or earlier. They are one storey high with attics and were likely constructed with a three-cell lobby-entrance plan, which has since been extended to the right. The cottages are timber-framed and plastered, featuring a plaintiled roof, although the right section has been renewed with concrete plaintiles, replacing the original thatch.

The cottages have three casement dormers: on the left is a raking dormer from the 19th century with a 20th-century casement, while on the right are two late 20th-century gabled dormers. There is a 16th or 17th-century axial chimney made of red brick on the left and an 18th or 19th-century axial chimney on the right. The windows are fitted with 20th-century small-pane casements, and there is a 19th-century boarded door at the lobby-entrance position. The interior has not been examined.

Local climate

1 and 2 Church Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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