Oldcott is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. House.

Oldcott

WRENN ID
errant-portal-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Oldcott, Laxfield Road, Fressingfield
OS grid reference
TM 261 773
Coordinates
52.34749, 1.31923
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oldcott is a house that was originally a farmhouse but has since been converted into several cottages. It features a 16th-century range at the rear and a 17th-century parlour cross-wing that faces the road. There are various later additions to the building. The timber-framed rear section has modern textured render and pink pantiles, while the cross-wing is constructed of 19th-century red brick and has a roof covered with glazed black pantiles. The house is two storeys tall with an attic in the cross-wing. Mid-20th-century casement windows are present, along with mid-20th-century diamond-leaded windows in the cross-wing and a lean-to porch with a glazed door that matches the window style. There is an internal stack in the rear section. The rear features some impressive first-floor framing and evidence of diamond-mullioned windows in the hall chamber. The cross-wing is divided into two rooms on each floor, and the heavier joists in the entrance hall are likely reused. The roof over the wing contains several reused medieval rafters that are heavily sooted.

Local climate

Oldcott sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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