Gatehouse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. House.
Gatehouse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-parapet-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gatehouse Cottage, Norwich Road, Creeting St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TM 115 579
- Coordinates
- 52.17939, 1.09328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gatehouse Cottage is a house dating from the mid or late 16th century. It has a two-cell end-chimney plan and is one storey high with attics. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the right-hand end. It has eyebrow casement dormers and an internal end chimney made of red brick from the 16th or 17th century. The cottage includes 20th-century casements with leaded lights and a 19th-century boarded entrance door at the cross-entry. The framing is substantial and fairly complete, with a clasped purlin roof, unchamfered floor joists, and arch-braced studwork. At the service end wall, the half-hipped roof rests on base crucks, allowing for a window to be placed under the eaves. The single service room is separated from the hall by a screen that has a wide chamfered central opening.
Local climate
Gatehouse Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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