Flint Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Cottage.
Flint Cottages
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-foundation-poplar
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Flint Cottages, 1 and 2, Culford Road, Fornham St. Martin
- OS grid reference
- TL 850 674
- Coordinates
- 52.2737, 0.71109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flint Cottages is a group of estate cottages, originally four but now two, built in the early 19th century. The cottages are two storeys high and designed in a Gothic style with a modified half-H plan, featuring a cottage in the cross-wing on each side and two in the central range, which has two gabled projections at the front. The exterior is constructed of black knapped flint with white brick dressings, and the front slopes of the roof are covered with fishscale slates, while the rear has plain slates. There are white brick internal chimney-stacks with groups of plain square shafts and attached heads. The gables have pierced and fluted bargeboards.
The front elevations feature early 20th-century casement windows with three lights and two lights, which have chamfered and rusticated surrounds along with hood-moulds above. The side elevations retain the original cast metal frames with a fine diamond pattern on the ground storey and blank recesses above. There are four open white brick porches with four-centred arched heads, two located on the side walls of the cross-wings and two in the angle between the cross-wings and the front projections, each topped with conical roofs.
Local climate
Flint Cottages 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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