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
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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