Cromwell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.
Cromwell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-doorway-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cromwell Cottage, Old School Road, Whepstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 827 587
- Coordinates
- 52.1966, 0.67272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cromwell Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It has one and a half storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof that includes axial chimneys made of red brick and gabled thatched casement dormers. The cottage has 20th-century casement windows and a glazed entrance door. Inside, there are back-to-back open fireplaces that serve both the hall and the parlour. The roof is constructed with clasped purlins.
Local climate
Cromwell 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 85% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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