Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. House.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-brass-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Pettaugh Road, Stonham Aspal
- OS grid reference
- TM 141 592
- Coordinates
- 52.18971, 1.131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century. It features a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and stands two storeys tall. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that has external and axial chimneys made of red brick. The cottage has 19th-century small-pane casements and boarded entrance doors. It is a small house with notably substantial framing that is fully exposed. The two-bay hall on the right includes a wide blocked lintelled fireplace, arch-braced studwork, and blocked square-mullioned windows. The 17th-century alterations consist of an external chimney for the service room, a newel staircase in the hall, and a new clasped-purlin roof, replacing the previous half-hipped roof at both ends. This building is an early example of a two-cell lobby-entrance house, where the second cell is a small unheated service room.
Local climate
Garden Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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