Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Cottage.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-loggia-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage, Chapel Road, Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 884 564
- Coordinates
- 52.17409, 0.75514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is an 18th-century cottage featuring a two-cell plan, standing one and a half storeys tall with attics. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, adorned with herringbone pargetting. It has a thatched roof complemented by carved 19th-century bargeboards, gabled casement dormers, and a central axial chimney made of red brick. The cottage includes 20th-century casements with leaded lights and a 20th-century gabled thatched entrance porch on the end wall, which has a boarded and battened door.
Local climate
Old 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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