Shortlands is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1983. A C18 Cottage.
Shortlands
- WRENN ID
- quiet-chamber-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shortlands, School Road, Rede
- OS grid reference
- TL 803 558
- Coordinates
- 52.17121, 0.63635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shortlands is a cottage dating from the 18th century. It is 1½ storeys tall with attics and features two windows. The structure is timber-framed and has roughcast rendering. The roof is pantiled and has gable chimneys, along with monopitch casement dormers. The cottage has 20th-century casement windows, a panelled entrance door, and an open gabled porch. Notably, the principal framing members have been reused from an earlier house.
Local climate
Shortlands 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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