Fox Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House.
Fox Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-garret-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fox Cottage, Ousden
- OS grid reference
- TL 748 592
- Coordinates
- 52.20378, 0.55764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered house, built on an L-shaped plan. It has one storey and attics. The windows are a mix of partly casement and partly double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The door, which is from the 20th century, is designed in an 18th-century style. The roof is thatched and features four gabled dormers on the north and west sides, one gabled dormer on the east front, and one sloping roofed dormer on the south front.
Local climate
Fox 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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