Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. House.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-mantel-stoat
- 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
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Thetford Road, Fakenham Magna
- OS grid reference
- TL 910 765
- Coordinates
- 52.3538, 0.80339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It has 1½ storeys and a two-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a black glazed pantiled roof. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack featuring a saw-tooth design. The windows are late 19th century casements with horizontal bars, and there are two gabled dormers. To the north, there is a single-storey extension from the 19th century made of brick and flint, also with a glazed pantiled roof. This house is notable as the birthplace of the mother of Robert Bloomfield, the rural poet known for works such as 'The Farmer's Boy'.
Local climate
Church Cottage 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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