Dairy Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1984. Cottage.

Dairy Cottages

WRENN ID
proud-obsidian-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Dairy Cottages, Dairy Lane, Ingham
OS grid reference
TL 852 694
Coordinates
52.29218, 0.71498
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dairy Cottages is a pair of cottages from the 18th century, standing two storeys high with attics. They are timber-framed and sit on a high plinth made of small red Tudor bricks, laid in random bond. The brick infill between the timber studs is colour-washed on the sides and partially rendered on the front. The external timbering shows significant weathering. The cottages have a high-pitched, fully hipped roof covered with plain tiles, and an internal chimney stack with a plain white brick shaft. Each cottage is identical, featuring a three-light 19th-century casement window and an adjacent plank door. There is a higher single window that lights the corner staircase, along with two two-light casements on the upper storey and a gabled dormer set into the roof slope. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to extension that runs the full length of the building, constructed with square framing, white brick infill, and a pantiled roof. Inside, there is exposed timbering, but the cottages are currently empty and becoming derelict.

Local climate

Dairy Cottages 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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