Seaton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. A C17 House.
Seaton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-thatch-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Seaton Cottage, Freewood Street, Bradfield St. George
- OS grid reference
- TL 916 598
- Coordinates
- 52.20356, 0.80258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seaton Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century, which was altered in the late 19th century. It has one and a half storeys with attics and features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed, encased, and partly underbuilt in 19th-century red brick. It has a thatched roof with gabled casement dormers and axial 17th-century chimneys made of red brick, with the right-hand chimney displaying saw-tooth pattern flues on a square base. The cottage has 19th-century small-pane horizontal sliding sash windows with segmental arches of red brick, and a boarded entrance door. Inside, there is a back-to-back open fireplace in the kitchen and an additional unheated room to the left. The roof features complete clasped purlins. The cottage was converted to residential use in the late 19th century, during which much of the external walling was rebuilt.
Local climate
Seaton Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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