Lavender Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Lavender Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-vestry-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lavender Cottage, the Street, Badwell Ash, IP31 3DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 990 690
- Coordinates
- 52.28379, 0.91666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lavender Cottage is a house dating to around 1600, located on the north side of The Street in Badwell Ash. It is a timber-framed building, now rendered with plain tile roofing. The house originally had a three-cell internal layout and a cross-entry plan. The chimney stack is constructed of small Tudor bricks. Modern two-light and three-light casement windows have been added to each storey. Originally two dwellings, the building retains two half-glazed doors, though neither is in its original location. The interior frame comprises four bays, including a chimney bay, with exposed timber framing. The framing features widely-spaced, substantial studs with a middle rail, and trusses with cambered tie-beams, arched braces (mostly removed), and jowled posts. On the upper floor, there are several blocked original diamond-mullioned windows, one in each gable end, with only one mullion remaining in place. The main ceiling beams are chamfered with curved stops; in the parlour, unchamfered joists are set flat and close together. The roof structure includes clasped side purlins, remnants of windbracing, and intermediate collars between trusses, and was formerly thatched. A 19th-century brick addition to the left, now Cavell Cottage, is excluded from this listing.
Local climate
Lavender 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 18 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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