North End, Low Barn Cottages South End, Low Barn Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1977. A C15 Farmhouse, dwelling.
North End, Low Barn Cottages South End, Low Barn Cottages
- WRENN ID
- quiet-wall-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1977
- Type
- Farmhouse, dwelling
- Address
- North End, Low Barn Cottages South End, Low Barn Cottages, Wetheringsett-Cum-Brockford
- OS grid reference
- TM 141 667
- Coordinates
- 52.25703, 1.1368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North End and South End, Low Barn Cottages is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates back to the 15th century and was extended to the south in the 17th century to create a long range. The building was renovated in the mid-20th century. It features a timber frame with a rendered exterior and a pantiled roof, and it stands two storeys high. There are five mid-20th century windows, each with two lights and a single horizontal glazing bar. The building has two mid-20th century doorways with boarded doors and gabled hoods.
Inside, the core of the structure includes a 15th-century house with a two-bay former open hall. A partition wall between the two dwellings incorporates an open truss with an arched-braced cambered tie beam and a peg for a crown-post; the roof is not accessible but is assumed to be intact. Some 15th-century studding is present, and the front wallplate shows evidence of a diamond-mullioned hall window. A mid-16th century inserted floor features a fine bridging beam with multiple roll mouldings, supported by the heads of each wall post, with concealed joists. There is an inserted stack, likely contemporary with the floor, which has blocked back-to-back fireplaces with roll-moulded lintels, one of which is mutilated. Much of the rest of the structure is concealed, and the interior of the South End has not been examined.
Local climate
North End, Low Barn Cottages South End, Low Barn Cottages 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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