Howes Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. House.
Howes Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-stair-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Howes Farm Cottage, Stowmarket Road, Ringshall
- OS grid reference
- TM 048 519
- Coordinates
- 52.12741, 0.992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howes Farm Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It has one storey with attics and a three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a Roman pantiled roof that was originally thatched. There is a 19th-century raking dormer with a casement window. The axial chimney, built of red brick, dates from the 16th or 17th century, with the upper shaft being rebuilt in the 19th century. The cottage has 20th-century casements and a half-glazed panelled entrance door, which is sheltered by an open pantiled porch. Inside, the first floor of the hall showcases good exposed timberwork, including chamfered joists typical of the mid-16th century.
Local climate
Howes Farm 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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