Bull Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House.
Bull Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-foundation-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bull Cottage, 208, Bull Road, Thornham Parva
- OS grid reference
- TM 114 725
- Coordinates
- 52.31027, 1.1009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bull Cottage is a house, which was later divided into two dwellings, dating from around 1600 and altered in the 20th century. It has a timber frame with a plastered finish and a thatched roof. The building features a small three-cell cross passage plan and is one storey high with an attic. The original entrance, located to the left of the center, has been blocked and replaced by a window. Towards the right end, there is a 20th-century thatched gabled porch. The windows include one, two, and three-light glazing bar casements with hoodboards, and there are three gabled dormers with two and three lights. An axial ridge stack is positioned to the right of the center, between the hall and the parlour.
The left gable end displays original brackets supporting the exposed plates, an attic two-light casement, and exposed purlins that are clasped by a cambered collar. The right gable end has three-light casements, a pentice board, and exposed plates and purlins. At the rear left, there is a boarded cross passage door, and at the rear right, there is a brick and pantiled lean-to addition. Inside, the cottage features close studding, pantry and buttery service rooms, a stop-chamfered axial binding beam in the hall, and reverse curved windbraces in the clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Bull Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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