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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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