The Cottage and Adjoining Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Cottage.
The Cottage and Adjoining Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-barrel-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TL 827 588
- Coordinates
- 52.19732, 0.67205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage and the adjoining cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the early 18th century. They are 1 and a half storeys tall with attics and feature a timber frame that is rendered and partly covered in weatherboarding. The cottages have a thatched roof, which includes a thatched gabled casement dormer and an axial chimney made of red brick. The windows are small-pane casements made of wrought iron, dating from the early 19th century, and there are boarded entrance doors.
Local climate
The Cottage and Adjoining 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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