Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1983. Cottage.
Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-sentry-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Briar Cottage, Horringer
- OS grid reference
- TL 822 625
- Coordinates
- 52.23142, 0.66763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage, formerly known as Fornham Entrance Lodge, is a cottage dating from around 1840. It has 1½ storeys and attics, with rendered walls and thatched multi-gabled roofs featuring overhanging bargeboards carved with quatrefoils and pendant finials. The chimney is made of gault brick and has four square flues decorated with chevron and fluted ornamentation. The cottage includes thatched gabled oriel windows with mullions and transoms, and on the first floor, there are 2-light casements with hood-moulds. At the rear, there is a battened and boarded entrance door, sheltered by an open hipped thatched porch supported by timber posts.
Local climate
Briar 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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