Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-entrance-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Hall Road, Bedingfield, IP23 7QE
- OS grid reference
- TM 181 686
- Coordinates
- 52.27276, 1.19626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features a two-cell front range with a contemporary service wing at the rear, creating a T-shaped plan. The building is timber framed and plastered, with the facade designed to imitate ashlar. It has fretted bargeboards on the main range and a slated roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic, and it has casement windows from around 1900 that include horizontal glazing bars, along with a small original window on the first floor. An internal stack with a rendered square shaft is located behind the roof ridge at the junction with the service range.
At the rear, there is an 18th-century lean-to with a boarded and battened door. Inside, the hall and parlour feature axial bridging beams with nicked ogee stop-chamfers, chamfered joists, and mid rails, all with ogee stops. The external walls have plain studding with braces. The roof over the main range includes clasped and butt purlins, although the wind-bracing has been removed. There is a newel staircase and several original doors with moulded faces. The service range originally extended further to the rear, but its original roof has been lost.
Local climate
Oak Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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