Alley Cottage the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Alley Cottage the Cottage

WRENN ID
tangled-chancel-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Alley Cottage the Cottage, the Lane, Lackford
OS grid reference
TL 794 701
Coordinates
52.30018, 0.63084
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alley Cottage and The Cottage are a pair of 18th-century cottages located on Old Road in Lackford. They are single-storey buildings with attics and feature gabled dormers. The cottages are timber-framed and were partially encased in gault brick and flint during the mid-19th century. The west end has been extended, and the original thatched roof has been replaced with asbestos slates. There is a red brick chimney stack in the center of the roof, which has a clasped side-purlin construction. One of the cottages has a 19th-century wrought iron small pane casement window, while the other windows are 20th-century casements. In the front garden, there is a well-head with a pulley and canopy, although it is not considered to be of special interest.

Local climate

Alley Cottage the 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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