Tyto Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
Tyto Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-basalt-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tyto Cottage, Low Road, Kenton, IP14 6SJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 201 652
- Coordinates
- 52.24121, 1.22356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tyto Cottage is a house that dates from the early 17th century for the left cell and around 1700 for the right cell, with a one-storey wing added in the mid-20th century to the right. The building is timber framed and plastered, designed to resemble ashlar, and features a thatched roof. It has two storeys and a two-cell layout with different origins. The cottage has casement windows, mostly from the 19th century, and a central doorway with a plank door. There are gable stacks, with the one on the right placed externally.
Inside, the left cell was once connected to additional work on the left side and features exposed studding and straight arched braces. The ground floor ceiling has a raised bridging beam and stop-chamfered joists set flat, along with an open fireplace. The original roof includes wind-braced side purlins. The right cell has exposed studs on the upper floor, a small blocked window with diamond mullions, and the upper floor structure has been largely renewed in the mid-20th century.
Local climate
Tyto 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 83% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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