The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-vestry-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Magpie Green, Wortham, IP22 1RG
- OS grid reference
- TM 072 785
- Coordinates
- 52.36585, 1.04278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating to the 17th century, with later alterations in the 20th century. It is a timber-frame building, with plaster rendering and a thatched roof. The house originally comprised two rooms. It has a single storey and an attic. A central boarded door is flanked by two two-light sash windows with glazing bars. A two-light dormer window with eyebrow thatching is located to the left. An internal stack is situated at the left end, and a right-end stack was truncated in the 20th century. There are attic lights in the gable returns. A 20th-century lean-to outshut is present at the left end, and a flat-roofed addition extends to the rear. Inside, a cross passage is reflected by doorways, and full-height tension bracing is visible at the service end. An axial binding beam with ogee stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops is located on the left side. Collared clasp purlins are also present.
Local climate
The 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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