Peggs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Peggs Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-steel-evening
- 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
- Peggs Cottage, Drinkstone Road, Rattlesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 970 593
- Coordinates
- 52.19676, 0.88204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pegg's Cottage is a house, likely from the 17th century, featuring a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. It stands two storeys tall, with the right-hand cell designed in a cross-wing form and rising to one and a half storeys. The cottage is timber framed and plastered, topped with thatched roofs. It has an axial 17th-century chimney made of red brick with a pilastered shaft. The windows are three-light casements from the 19th or 20th century, with one window featuring leaded glazing. The entrance door is panelled, with the upper pair of panels being glazed. At the rear, there is an outshut made of painted brick, dating from the 18th or 19th century, which has a thatched catslide roof. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Peggs Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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