Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House. 1 related planning application.

Bridge Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-baluster-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
House
Address
Bridge Cottage, Low Road, Fressingfield, IP21 5QD
OS grid reference
TM 262 775
Coordinates
52.34904, 1.32114
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Cottage, formerly known as Bridge Cottages, is a house that was later converted into four cottages. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and has undergone significant alterations since then. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring four mid-20th century large-paned casement windows, a boarded entrance door from the same period, and four mid-20th century dormers. There is a central axial stack and an external stack on each end gable. The interior has been modernized, with the timber frame exposed. This structure stands on the site of the former guildhall and was once used as the parish workhouse.

Local climate

Bridge Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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