Beehive Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Beehive Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-bronze-mist
- 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
- Beehive Cottage, the Ling, Wortham, IP22 1ST
- OS grid reference
- TM 090 793
- Coordinates
- 52.37204, 1.06895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beehive Cottage is a house, which was later divided into two dwellings. It likely has origins from the 16th century, was extended in the 17th century, and altered in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, with some areas covered in weatherboarding, and it has thatched roofs. It probably started as a small two-bay open hall, which was extended by adding a parlour bay to the left. The layout includes a lobby entry plan with a porch and a short rear wing, both of which are likely 20th-century additions that reused older materials. The cottage is one storey with an attic.
The entrance is located to the left of the center in a gabled porch that is also one storey with an attic. It has reset panelled double doors, flanking attic casements, and a diamond mullioned window on the right return. To the right, there is a short catslide roof over a weatherboarded lean-to outshut with a two-light casement window. An axial ridge stack is positioned at the left end of the original building, while the 17th-century parlour bay to the left has a slightly lower ridge and features exposed diamond mullions on the ground floor gable end and a four-light ovolo mullioned window in the attic. The right gable end has a 19th-century external stack with offsets and exposed plates. At the rear, there are two-light glazing bar casements and three two-light gabled dormers. Behind the main stack, there is a one-storey and attic added wing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Beehive 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- 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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