Michaelmas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1972. House.
Michaelmas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-storey-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Michaelmas Cottage, Bury Road, Hengrave, IP28 6LS
- OS grid reference
- TL 826 687
- Coordinates
- 52.28614, 0.67613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Michaelmas Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, featuring a lobby entrance plan. It is a single-storey building with attics, constructed from timber framing and rendered. The cottage has a thatched roof with an axial chimney. It includes various 18th and 19th century casement windows, some of which have leaded lights, as well as an eyebrow casement dormer. The entrance door is boarded and is sheltered by an open porch supported by posts.
Local climate
Michaelmas 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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