Elm Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Elm Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
lone-screen-weasel
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
House
Address
Elm Tree Cottage, Gedding Road, Drinkstone, IP30 9SZ
OS grid reference
TL 960 606
Coordinates
52.20891, 0.86759
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell plan that includes a crosswing on the left. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with thatched roofs. There is an axial chimney in the crosswing with a rebuilt shaft made of 19th-century red brick, and an internal end chimney on the right. A thatched gabled 19th-century casement dormer is present, along with carved 19th-century bargeboards on the gable and dormer. The cottage has 19th and 20th-century small-pane casements and a boarded entrance door located in the crosswing. The interior has not been examined.

Local climate

Elm Tree 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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