Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1990. House.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-clay-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Creeting Road, Stowmarket
- OS grid reference
- TM 062 587
- Coordinates
- 52.18799, 1.01581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage, formerly known as Meadow Cottage, is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It features a roughcast timber-frame construction sitting on a brick plinth, topped with a thatched roof. The building has a two-celled baffle-entry plan and is one storey high. On the front elevation, there is an early 19th-century plank door to the left and an early 20th-century half-glazed door to the right. The cottage has two 18th-century three-light casement windows. The gabled roof includes a saw-toothed 17th-century ridge stack positioned to the right of the center. At the rear, there are brick extensions. The east gable head reveals the roof structure, which consists of collars and clasped purlins.
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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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