The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-gateway-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Mellis Green
- OS grid reference
- TM 102 747
- Coordinates
- 52.33012, 1.08429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a steeply pitched pantiled roof. The building consists of two cells and three bays, with one storey and an attic. The right bay has small two-light casement windows with ground floor glazing bars and a hoodboard, while to the left there is a larger 20th-century casement window on the ground floor. A central ridge stack has been rebuilt at the top. The left end has a three-light glazing bar attic casement with a hoodboard and exposed purlins, and the entrance is located in a 20th-century open gabled porch towards the rear. The right end features a two-light attic casement. At the rear, there is a low 20th-century addition with a gable. Inside, the ground floor has a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, and the first floor includes cranked braces in the walling at the right end, opposed base cruck blades supporting a raised tie beam to the left of centre, and collars clasping the purlins.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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