St Clare Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. A C16 House.
St Clare Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-gutter-candle
- 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
- St Clare Cottage, Bradfield St George Road, Bradfield St. Clare
- OS grid reference
- TL 913 575
- Coordinates
- 52.18293, 0.79822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Clare Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century and early 17th century. It has 1 and a half storeys with attics and features a three-cell plan that originally included a lobby entrance. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a hipped thatched roof that has eyebrow casement dormers. There are axial and gable chimneys made of red brick, and 19th-century casement windows. The entrance door is boarded and has a thatched canopy. The internal layout and framing are well-preserved. The house was built in two stages; the right-hand cell is from a 16th-century house, while the hall was rebuilt in the late 16th or early 17th century, with a small unheated room added to the left. Open fireplaces from the 17th century were added in both the hall and the parlour.
Local climate
St Clare 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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