Shepherds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.
Shepherds Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-wall-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shepherds Cottage, the Green, Hawstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 862 583
- Coordinates
- 52.192, 0.72406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherds Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It has one and a half storeys and attics, featuring a timber-framed structure that is rendered with herringbone pargetting. The roof is thatched and includes axial and gable chimneys made of red brick, along with a thatched gabled casement dormer. The building has various 19th and 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century panelled entrance door. It is likely an altered three-cell house with a cross-passage entrance, and it has a large axial chimney that serves the hall and parlour, featuring a cambered lintel over a wide open fireplace in the parlour.
Local climate
Shepherds 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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