Lydgate Cottage Micawber Cottage Teasel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. A Georgian Cottage.
Lydgate Cottage Micawber Cottage Teasel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-sill-falcon
- 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
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Lydgate Cottage Micawber Cottage Teasel Cottage, Birds Green, Rattlesden, IP30 0RT
- OS grid reference
- TL 979 589
- Coordinates
- 52.19369, 0.89423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of three cottages, likely built in the late 18th century. The cottages are two storeys high and have five windows. They are constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. The roof is hipped and thatched, featuring two axial chimneys; the left chimney is made of gault brick, while the right chimney is of 18th-century red brick, with some parts rebuilt in gault brick. The cottages mainly have 18th-century three-light casement windows. Micawber Cottage has a small-pane casement window from the mid-20th century at the first storey, and Lydgate Cottage has a 19th-century casement window at the ground storey. The entrance doors are boarded and battened and date from the 20th century. Teasel Cottage still has its 18th-century pediment and brackets.
Local climate
Lydgate Cottage Micawber Cottage Teasel 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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