Church Cottages is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1955. Cottages.
Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dim-latch-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1955
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Church Cottages, High Street, Cavendish
- OS grid reference
- TL 805 465
- Coordinates
- 52.08746, 0.63325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottages is a picturesque group of 16th to 17th century timber-framed and plastered cottages. They are one storey high with attics and were badly damaged by fire in 1966, but were restored in 1972. The cottages feature casement windows and boarded doors, with thatched roofs.
Church Cottages, along with the chimneys and premises occupied by Chris Bolden & Co, the George Hotel, Cosy Nook, Almore House, Corner Cottage, the mill occupied by A Kahn, Cavendish House, the Rectory, premises occupied by W J Cutting, Spring View, Middle Cottage, Water View, Canford House, and St Ronans, form a group. Additionally, Church Cottages also form a group with the Church of St Mary and Church Farmhouse on Peacocks Road.
Local climate
Church 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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