Memorial Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. House.

Memorial Cottages

WRENN ID
small-pillar-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1984
Type
House
Address
Memorial Cottages, 1 and 2, the Street, Barnham
OS grid reference
TL 868 790
Coordinates
52.37787, 0.74404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Memorial Cottages, located on the south side of The Street in Barnham, are a pair of houses that were originally built in the late 17th century and later extended to form two cottages. The buildings are one-and-a-half storeys high and feature a timber-framed structure with plastering and a thatched roof adorned with an ornamental ridge. An internal chimney stack has a plain red brick shaft.

The cottages have a basic three-cell lobby-entrance plan and include three small-paned, two-light windows, one of which has cast-iron frames and pintle hinges. There is also an eyebrow dormer that contains a two-light leaded-paned casement window, along with two plank doors.

The extensions at each end of the original structure reflect the cottage conversion. On the east side, the extension is one-and-a-half storeys tall, constructed of red brick with a black glazed pantiled roof and features an end chimney. This side includes one three-light small-paned casement window with an arched head to its surround. On the west side, the extension is also one-and-a-half storeys and is made of rubble flint and red brick, topped with black glazed pantiles. It has two two-light casements in the gable end.

Local climate

Memorial Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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