The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-tracery-smoke
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
The Cottage, Nethergate Street, Hopton
OS grid reference
TL 992 790
Coordinates
52.37319, 0.92593
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It has one-and-a-half storeys and is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, featuring comb-patterned pargetting arranged in diagonal rows. The roof is covered with plain tiles. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain white brick shaft, and the entrance is through a lobby. The house has early 20th-century casement windows, including a two-light and a one-light, as well as four gabled dormers with two-light casements. There is also a small 19th-century enclosed gabled porch made of colour-washed flint and brick, which includes a panelled door.

Local climate

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 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Norvic House Grade II 24 m
  2. Maltings to Rear of the Cottage Grade II 24 m
  3. The Red House Grade II 25 m
  4. High Gables Grade II 79 m
  5. Hopton War Memorial Grade II 99 m
  6. Church of All Saints Grade I 116 m
  7. Hopton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Grade II 156 m
  8. All Saints House Grade II 169 m
  9. Hunters Grade II 203 m
  10. Robson's Farmhouse Grade II 388 m