Glebe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House.
Glebe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-cupola-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Glebe Cottage, the Street, Redgrave
- OS grid reference
- TM 045 778
- Coordinates
- 52.36028, 1.00247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glebe Cottage is a house that was later divided into three dwellings. It dates from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with a floor and stack added in the late 16th century. The building was raised and extended in the mid to late 17th century and has undergone alterations in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and some red brick, topped with thatched roofs.
The original early four bays now serve as a service cross range to the right. Initially, there was a small open hall of two bays, with a storeyed lower bay facing the road and a 'croglofft' in the upper bay, which has been partially dismantled. A five-bay 17th-century addition extends to the left at a right angle, forming an L shape in plan. The building is two storeys high with an attic.
The entrance is located to the right of the later range and features a recessed boarded door, along with one and two-light glazing bar casements, ground floor hoodboards, and a fire insurance marker. The right gable front of the original lower bay includes two-light casements and exposed 17th-century plates and purlins. The right return has three bays of casements with an axial ridge stack inserted in the former cross passage. At the rear, there is a pantiled lean-to that is a surviving part of the upper bay. The left gable end is made of colourwashed brick with two offsets and an internal stack, which has a rebuilt cap. The later range also has a pantiled lean-to outshut at the rear. Attached to the rear left are 19th-century outbuildings made of flint and brick, which are rendered.
Inside, the early range features close studding, with former open truss posts that have semi-octagonal shafts, mortices for arched braces, and an inserted stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam. There are also mortices for arched braces from intermediate posts to a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam that supports the 'croglofft' in the upper bay, grooves for a lower storey door, and mortices for an upper storey partition, along with stop-chamfered mid-rails in the lower bay. The eaves have been lowered during reroofing. The 17th-century range has indented stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams, stop-chamfered storey posts and mid-rails, and cambered collars to the side purlin roofs.
Local climate
Glebe 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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