Croft Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. House.
Croft Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-parapet-fog
- 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
- Croft Cottage, the Street, Badwell Ash
- OS grid reference
- TL 989 689
- Coordinates
- 52.28295, 0.91457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It has a timber-framed structure that is rendered, topped with a thatched roof. The building features an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. It is one storey high with attics and includes two eyebrow dormers that have 2-light casement windows. On the ground floor, there are two 2-light casement windows and one 3-light casement window, all fitted with mid 20th century diamond-leaded panes. The entrance is marked by an early 20th century plank door, which has applied pilaster strips and ornate ironwork, located at the left end of the house. To the left, there is a single-storey lean-to, and at the rear, there is a 20th century extension. Inside, the layout is a plain 3-cell arrangement in four bays with exposed timbers. The frame lacks a middle rail, features a 2-inch chamfer on the main beam, and has joists set flat. The tie-beam is cut on the upper floor, where the upper rooms are ceiled off below collar level, leaving only the rafters visible.
Local climate
Croft 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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