School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. House.
School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-bastion-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- School Cottage, Hawstead Road, Nowton
- OS grid reference
- TL 866 608
- Coordinates
- 52.2145, 0.73032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell lobby entrance form and five bays. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a thatched roof and an internal chimney stack that has a plain red brick shaft. The front has two 2-light cast-iron casement windows with small rectangular panes, along with similar windows in the upper part of the gables. Inside, the framing is of plain, good quality, with widely spaced studs and no middle rails. The internal trusses have low collars and lack tie-beams, allowing for access to the upstairs. The layout consists of three basic units on the ground floor, but only two rooms are located above, with stairs situated in one corner.
Local climate
School 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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