Kristie is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Estate cottage.
Kristie
- WRENN ID
- solemn-soffit-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Estate cottage
- Address
- Kristie, the Street, Fornham St. Martin
- OS grid reference
- TL 851 672
- Coordinates
- 52.27235, 0.71205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kristie is an estate cottage built around 1840. It is two storeys high and constructed from black knapped flint, featuring red brick quoins and dressings, topped with a slate roof. The building has two internal chimney-stacks, one with two red brick barrel shafts and the other with four.
There are two 2-light casement windows with ornamental cast-iron tracery in the upper lights, along with similar 3-light windows in each gable end. Above the front windows on the upper storey, there are two recessed terracotta panels decorated with diaper patterns, and a diamond-shaped panel in the apex of each gable.
The cottage has an enclosed central gabled porch covered with fishscale slates, featuring an arched doorway. The inner door consists of six raised fielded panels. The porch and gables are adorned with pierced and fluted bargeboards.
At the corners of the house, there are short curved sections of high rubble flint wall with white brick copings that connect to the main wall leading to Fornham House. Each side of the cottage has an arched doorway; the one on the north side is blocked, while the south side features a plank door with ornamental ironwork.
Local climate
Kristie 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 88% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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