Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. A Post-medieval House.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
old-nave-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
House
Period
Post-medieval
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage, Barking
OS grid reference
TM 069 529
Coordinates
52.13622, 1.02313
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a house built in the late 16th century or 17th century, originally serving as a bakehouse for the nearby farmhouse now known as Timberleys. The cottage has one storey with attics and features a timber-framed and plastered structure. It has a plaintiled roof with an end chimney made of red brick. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries, and there is a boarded entrance door from the 19th century. Inside, the plain timber-framing is exposed. In the 17th century, a first floor was added to the bakehouse, which was originally open to the roof. A low extension made of red brick and pantiles was added to the rear in the 19th century.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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