Shepherd's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.
Shepherd's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-thatch-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shepherd's Cottage, the Street, Coney Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 952 781
- Coordinates
- 52.36632, 0.86683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherd's Cottage is a house that was formerly divided into two cottages, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is one-and-a-half storeys tall and has a two-cell layout. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped at both ends. At the north end, there is a rear wing that extends to form an L shape. A lean-to extension on the south end follows the downward slope of the main roof, and there is an additional single-storey lean-to along the west side. The main house features an internal chimney stack with a saw-tooth shaft made of small red bricks, small-paned 20th-century casement windows, and two eyebrow dormers. The framing is lightweight, with primary braces and bisected studs, joists set on edge, covered rafters, straight collars, and clasped purlins.
Local climate
Shepherd's 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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