11 and 12, Birds Green is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
11 and 12, Birds Green
- WRENN ID
- shifting-keystone-mint
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- 11 and 12, Birds Green, Rattlesden, IP30 0RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 979 590
- Coordinates
- 52.19402, 0.89521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 11 and 12 Birds Green are a pair of cottages, likely built in the late 18th century. They are two storeys high and feature two windows. The cottages are timber-framed and plastered, topped with a hipped thatched roof and an axial chimney made of 19th-century gault brick.
No. 11 has 18th-century three-light windows with wrought-iron casements, and the ground floor window is fitted with boarded shutters. The entrance door of No. 11 dates from the 18th or early 19th century and has four fielded panels, topped with a simple pediment supported by console brackets and finished with a spike finial. In contrast, No. 12 has mid-20th-century windows, and its entrance doorway has been blocked. The cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
11 and 12, Birds Green 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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