Field Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. House.
Field Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-shingle-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Field Cottage, Thetford Road, Fakenham Magna
- OS grid reference
- TL 908 768
- Coordinates
- 52.35602, 0.80136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Field Cottage is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell plan with four bays. The building is timber-framed, plastered, and topped with a thatched roof. There is an internal chimney stack made of plain red brick with a plain red shaft. The ground floor has a range of four 19th-century casement windows, while the upper storey has three. A 20th-century door with glazed panels is located at the front. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to that is plastered and has a pantiled roof. Adjoining the house at the north end are two small single-storey outbuildings made of brick and flint. Inside, much of the heavy timbering is exposed, including moulded ceiling beams and original roofs.
Local climate
Field 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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