Hainault Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. A Early Modern House.
Hainault Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-string-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Hainault Cottage, 5, 6, the Green (Upper), Stoke-By-Clare
- OS grid reference
- TL 741 438
- Coordinates
- 52.06538, 0.5394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hainault Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house located in Stoke by Clare. It has one storey and attics, featuring a five-window range with casement windows. Above the doorway, the plaster is inscribed with the date 1677 and the initials M.E. The roof is thatched and gabled at both ends, with two gabled dormers. Hainault Cottage is part of a group with another house located approximately 20 yards north-east, known as Tudor Cottage.
Local climate
Hainault Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- No related consent applications matched
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