Ardath Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. Cottage.
Ardath Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-beam-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ardath Cottage, the Street, Stoke-By-Clare
- OS grid reference
- TL 741 435
- Coordinates
- 52.06284, 0.53873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ardath Cottage, formerly known as Lion Cottage, is a 17th-century cottage located on the north-west side of The Street in Stoke by Clare. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a thatched roof. It consists of three cells and has one storey with attics. The entrance is marked by a boarded door, flanked by two small two-light casement windows on each side. To the right of the door is a larger small-paned window, and above the central window is a three-light casement eyebrow dormer. A brick stack is positioned above the door. The cottage is part of a group of listed buildings along The Street, which includes Green Farmhouse, The Green (Lower).
Local climate
Ardath 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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.
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