Wisteria Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. House.
Wisteria Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-pinnacle-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wisteria Cottage, Mendlesham Road, Cotton
- OS grid reference
- TM 071 669
- Coordinates
- 52.26142, 1.03469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wisteria Cottage is a house with probable origins in the 16th century, which was remodeled in the 17th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with a roof now covered in corrugated asbestos, replacing the original thatch. The building consists of three cells and is 1½ storeys high. It has mid-20th century metal casement windows, and the lobby entrance includes a half-glazed door from the same period. To the left, there is a small mid-20th century shopfront. The chimney stack has a rendered shaft.
Inside, the structure has a three-bay frame that does not correspond to the current layout, as the stack has been inserted between the two left bays. The interior retains intact studding of variable scantling. The upper floor, likely from the 17th century, features heavy square or on-edge joists and axial floorbeams with small ogee stops. The rafters are irregular, and the upper part of the roof is concealed.
Local climate
Wisteria Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
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