The Cottage, 1 The Gildhall is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1983. Cottage.
The Cottage, 1 The Gildhall
- WRENN ID
- second-railing-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, 1 The Gildhall, the Street, Horringer
- OS grid reference
- TL 826 618
- Coordinates
- 52.22496, 0.67213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage, located at 1 The Gildhall, is a cottage dating from around 1800. It features a gable front and is a single storey with one window. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof that has an axial chimney made of gault brick. The bargeboards are decorated with carved soffits. The cottage has 19th-century hood-moulded windows fitted with leaded casements and a boarded and battened entrance door. It is believed to have been the residence of the governor of the nearby Workhouse and has group value with the Gildhall.
Local climate
The Cottage, 1 The Gildhall 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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