White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-ledge-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cottage, Church Road, Bradfield St. George
- OS grid reference
- TL 912 601
- Coordinates
- 52.20622, 0.7974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a house from the mid-17th century, with the possibility of an earlier core. It features a three-cell lobby entrance plan and has one and a half storeys plus attics. The structure is timber framed and rendered between exposed studwork, topped with a thatched roof that includes gabled and eyebrow dormers. An axial chimney made of red brick has attached diagonally-set square shafts. The windows are 20th-century two- and three-light casements with leaded glazing. There is a 20th-century plain-tiled entrance porch and a boarded door. Inside, the first floor has ovolo-moulded members and a wind-braced clasped purlin roof at the parlour end only. The service end features substantial unmoulded framing and first floor joists. It is likely that the house originally had a two-cell core from the 15th or 16th century, with the parlour cell added to the left-hand end in the 17th century.
Local climate
White 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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