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

Clay Cottage

WRENN ID
low-roof-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Clay Cottage, Barrow Road, the Saxhams
OS grid reference
TL 793 637
Coordinates
52.2428, 0.62546
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clay Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that stands two storeys tall. It is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a hipped pantiled roof. The cottage features a central axial chimney. The windows include mid-19th century sashes and casements, along with earlier 19th century wrought iron hexagon and diamond-paned casements located at each end wall.

Local climate

Clay 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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