Grandfather's is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Grandfather's
- WRENN ID
- peeling-wattle-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grandfather's, the Saxhams
- OS grid reference
- TL 788 624
- Coordinates
- 52.23112, 0.61692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grandfather's is a cottage from the late 18th century located on the Great Saxham Hall Estate, possibly designed by Capability Brown. The building has a hexagonal shape and features two-storey gabled porches on three sides. Its walls are made of red brick, accented with gault brick string courses and rusticated quoins created from raised blocks of flintwork. The roof is a pantiled pyramid topped with a central gault brick chimney. The cottage has 20th-century small-paned casements in its original openings, some of which include rendered semi-circular panels above. The porch gables also have similar larger panels, with one featuring a central six-panel entrance door. The cottage was restored around 1980.
Local climate
Grandfather's 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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