Wrenshall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Wrenshall Cottages

WRENN ID
cold-frieze-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Wrenshall Cottages, Upthorpe Road, Stanton
OS grid reference
TL 985 719
Coordinates
52.31012, 0.91068
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wrenshall Cottages is a pair of estate cottages, now privately owned, dated 1899 on the front. They are constructed of red brick, with parts finished in tile-hanging and mock timbering, and feature plaintiled roofs. The cottages are one-and-a-half storeys tall and have a half-H form, with hipped, single-storey projections from each gable that contain entries and porches.

Each wing has a chimney stack with four hexagonal shafts, and there are two smaller stacks with similar shafts on the central range. The ground storey is made of brick, and all the windows are original casements with a single horizontal bar. Each wing features a jetty with carved supports at the first floor, tile-hanging on the upper storey, and a four-light oriel window with a coved timber base. The gables project slightly at eaves level, with mock timbering, carved barge-boards, and hanging finials at the apex.

The centre of the cottages has a lean-to veranda roof supported by posts along the ground storey, and the upper storey has 22-light casement windows with gablet roofs finished with barge-boards and finials that match the gables. These cottages are the only example in Stanton of the ornate style built on the estate of John Martineau of Walsham-le-Willows in the later 19th century and were formerly attached to Wrenshall Farm.

Local climate

Wrenshall 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 95% 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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