Limetree Cottage Stoakes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

Limetree Cottage Stoakes Cottage

WRENN ID
floating-copper-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Limetree Cottage Stoakes Cottage, Church Lane, Wetherden, IP14 3LB
OS grid reference
TM 008 628
Coordinates
52.22695, 0.9389
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stoakes Cottage and Limetree Cottage are two houses that were originally one building. They were constructed in two stages: the hall and service cell, now known as Stoakes Cottage, likely date back to the mid-16th century, while the parlour block to the right, now Limetree Cottage, is thought to have been built around 1600. The cottages are two storeys high and feature a three-cell cross-entry plan. They are timber-framed and plastered, with pantiled roofs that were previously thatched.

An axial chimney from the 17th century made of orange brick has its upper shaft rebuilt in 19th-century gault brick. To the left, there is an 18th-century external chimney made of red brick, with its upper section rebuilt in late 19th-century red brick and gault brick quoins. The windows are mainly three-light casements from the mid-20th century, while Stoakes Cottage has two-light casements from the 18th or 19th century on the first storey.

An original cross-entry doorway at Stoakes Cottage features a four-centred arched head and a boarded door from the 19th or 20th century. There is a late 19th or early 20th-century entrance porch supported by posts, with a pantiled roof and cusped bargeboards topped with a spike finial. The cottages have a two-tier side-purlin roof. The interior has not been examined.

Local climate

Limetree Cottage Stoakes 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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