The Town Clerks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1971. A C18 House.
The Town Clerks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-storey-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Town Clerks Cottage, 5, Lambseth Street, Eye
- OS grid reference
- TM 144 739
- Coordinates
- 52.3218, 1.14583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Clerk's Cottage is a house that was formerly occupied by the town clerk, dating from the mid-18th century. It features a plastered and whitewashed timber frame set on a tarred brick plinth, topped with a slate roof that includes some black-glazed pantiles. The building is two storeys high, with the gable end facing the street. The entrance has a six-panelled and fielded door within a doorcase that is flanked by fluted pilasters. To the right of the door, there is a three-light late 20th-century casement window, and above it on the first floor, there is a similar two-light casement. The roof is hipped and has a ridge stack. On the south side, there are two two-light casements and one 18th-century sliding casement on each floor, all featuring glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is part of a notable group of buildings on Lambseth Street and is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Town Clerks Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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