Number 1 Heath Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. A C17 Cottage.

Number 1 Heath Cottages

WRENN ID
knotted-rotunda-sage
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
Number 1 Heath Cottages, Heath Road, Sapiston
OS grid reference
TL 929 765
Coordinates
52.3526, 0.83223
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 1 Heath Cottages is a 17th century cottage that stands at 1½ storeys. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered and has a thatched roof. The cottage includes an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. Throughout the building, there are 20th century casement windows, and it is adorned with two eyebrow dormers.

Local climate

Number 1 Heath Cottages 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 88% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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