Salinda Cottage the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Cottage.
Salinda Cottage the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-copper-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Salinda Cottage the Cottage, Rectory Road, Whepstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 837 578
- Coordinates
- 52.18796, 0.68675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Salinda Cottage and The Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from around 1500, with alterations and extensions made in the early 19th century. The buildings are two storeys high, with Salinda Cottage featuring three windows and The Cottage having two. They are constructed with a timber frame and rough-cast render, topped with a slated roof that has axial chimneys made of red brick. The cottages have 19th-century two-light windows with wrought iron small-pane casements, some of which include hood-moulds. The entrance doors are four-panelled, with The Cottage's door featuring a hood-mould with drop finials.
Originally, the cottages were designed as a three-cell open hall house. The two-bay hall still retains a blocked unglazed mullioned window at the front. The parlour block on the left has its first-floor structure exposed, and the former end wall has an unglazed window beneath the eaves of the half-hipped roof. A chimney stack and first floor were added to the hall around 1600. In the early 19th century, the building was extended at both ends, the old roof structure was replaced, and it was converted into a terrace of several cottages.
Local climate
Salinda Cottage the 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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