The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-iron-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White Cottage, 4, Hawstead Lane, Great Whelnetham
- OS grid reference
- TL 877 606
- Coordinates
- 52.21229, 0.74594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring two windows. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, with herringbone pargetting in panels. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, and it includes a leaded segmental-headed dormer and an axial chimney made of red brick. The cottage has 19th-century small-pane sash windows and a six-panel entrance door with a moulded architrave and a pentice. Notably, the house incorporates the parlour cell of a late 17th or early 18th-century house, which is now known as number 3, Hawstead Lane. This adjoining part has a plain tiled roof with a 20th-century plain tiled casement dormer and a small-pane 19th-century bay window, which was formerly the window of a baker's shop.
Local climate
The White 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
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