Toll-House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1984. Cottage, former toll-house.
Toll-House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- open-arch-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage, former toll-house
- Address
- Toll-House Cottage, Higham
- OS grid reference
- TL 747 662
- Coordinates
- 52.26623, 0.55886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toll-House Cottage is a cottage that was formerly a toll-house, built in the early 19th century with alterations made around 1980. The building has two storeys and a pentagonal plan, with corners that are further splayed to create ten unequal sides. It is constructed of coursed clunch rubble, featuring quoins made of squared clunch. The roof is pyramid-shaped, covered with fishscale slates, and has a central chimney made of gault brick. The windows are single-light small-pane casements, mostly renewed around 1980, with pointed-arched fixed lights above. Some ground floor windows still have raised keystones made of clunch. The one-storey entrance porch and additional extensions at the rear were added around 1980.
Local climate
Toll-House 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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