Hillfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Cottage.
Hillfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-storey-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hillfield Cottage, Low Street, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 942 732
- Coordinates
- 52.32291, 0.84882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillfield Cottage is a cottage, likely a remnant of a larger house, dating from the early 17th century, with an older core. It has one storey and an attic, featuring three bays. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof and an end chimney stack. The cottage has 20th-century casement windows, with two-light and three-light configurations. The entrance door is located at the rear and is also from the 20th century. Inside, the cottage showcases some very heavy timbering, indicating its medieval origins and later alterations, including a doubled wall-plate.
Local climate
Hillfield 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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