Bull Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Residential, former public house.

Bull Cottage

WRENN ID
eastward-cobalt-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1984
Type
Residential, former public house
Address
Bull Cottage, Bull Lane, Hawstead
OS grid reference
TL 847 593
Coordinates
52.20145, 0.70239
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bull Cottage is a house that was formerly a public house, dating from the late 16th century, with a possible earlier core and an extension from the 18th century. The building has one and a half storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell lobby entrance plan. It is timber-framed and rendered with oblong scratched panels. The thatched roof includes eyebrow casement dormers and has a late 16th-century axial chimney made of red brick, which has twin flattened-hexagon shafts on a square base; these shafts have been rebuilt in a square shape.

The windows consist of 19th and 20th-century three-light casements with leaded diamond panes, along with a small four-light diamond-mullioned window from the 16th century located in the parlour. The external walling of the hall shows rising sole-braces, suggesting it may be part of an earlier structure. The roof has clasped purlins, which are a 17th or early 18th-century replacement of the original. The left-hand service room was added in the late 17th or early 18th century and incorporates much reused timber.

Local climate

Bull 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 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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