Ponds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. House.
Ponds Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-steeple-pearl
- 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
- Ponds Cottage, the Street, Stonham Aspal
- OS grid reference
- TM 139 592
- Coordinates
- 52.18978, 1.12799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ponds Cottage is a house that likely dates from the 16th or early 17th century. It has two storeys and features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed, with some areas retaining early or original plaster. The roof is thatched and includes axial and gable chimneys made of red brick from the 17th or 18th century. The cottage has 19th-century small-pane casements and a 20th-century gabled entrance porch made of pantiles, which includes a plank door, along with another entrance at the right-hand end. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Ponds 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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