Blacksmiths Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.

Blacksmiths Cottage

WRENN ID
ragged-rafter-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Blacksmiths Cottage, the Street, Coney Weston
OS grid reference
TL 956 780
Coordinates
52.36585, 0.87213
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blacksmiths Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It has two storeys and a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. The cottage is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof, and features an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. The windows are 20th-century casements with small panes, including both 2-light and 3-light designs. There is also a 20th-century enclosed porch. Inside, the frame is complete and showcases plain timbering, primary braces, bisected studs, and joists set on edge, along with a clasped side-purlin roof.

Local climate

Blacksmiths 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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