Porch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. A C17 House.
Porch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-lintel-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Porch Cottage, the Street, Little Thurlow, Haverhill, CB9 7LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 678 506
- Coordinates
- 52.12847, 0.45015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porch Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 17th to 18th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring 20th-century casement windows. The roof is thatched and includes one gabled dormer window. Porch Cottage is part of a group that includes 115, 115A and 116 The Limes, Larkspur Cottage, The Firs, Chapel Cottage with Fox Cottage, Burton Cottage, and 114A and 114B The Street.
Local climate
Porch 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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