Number 12 (Robins Nest), Number 14 and Number 16 is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. Row of cottages.
Number 12 (Robins Nest), Number 14 and Number 16
- WRENN ID
- first-gutter-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1988
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- Number 12 (Robins Nest), Number 14 and Number 16, the Causeway, Walsham-Le-Willows
- OS grid reference
- TM 000 708
- Coordinates
- 52.29955, 0.93215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 12 (Robins Nest), Number 14, and Number 16 are a row of three estate cottages built in the late 19th century. They are designed in a rustic style and are the most ornate example of several cottages constructed by John Martineau Esq. of The Lawn. The cottages feature red brick on the ground floor and exposed timber-framing with render on the upper floor, topped with plaintiles.
The buildings are two storeys high and have a complex form. They include internal and end chimney-stacks with rounded shafts, moulded bases, and corbelled caps. The end cottages each have large jettied cross-wings, with shaped joist ends and ornate supporting brackets. The gables are adorned with carved bargeboards and ornate spike finials. There is a single-storey open timber porch at the angle of the wing and main range, along with an oriel window on the upper floor featuring a 5-light casement window.
All other windows in the row have similar casements with a single bar to the lights. The middle cottage is double fronted and features a large two-storey gabled porch that projects from its centre front. This porch has open timbering on the ground floor and a room above with a 5-light slightly coved window, along with matching bargeboards and finials. All three cottages have diagonal bracing in the apex of the gables and Biblical texts carved on the bressummers and tie-beams.
Local climate
Number 12 (Robins Nest), Number 14 and Number 16 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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