Linnet Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1972. Cottage.
Linnet Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-cinder-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Linnet Cottage, 11 and 12, Bury Road, Hengrave
- OS grid reference
- TL 826 686
- Coordinates
- 52.28554, 0.67656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Linnet Cottage is a pair of cottages dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. They are two storeys high and each has two windows. The cottages feature flint walls with red brick dressings and have a thatched roof with both axial and gable chimneys. The windows are two-light casements, with No. 12 having leaded diamond panes. The entrance doors are deeply recessed and boarded, with boarded reveals.
Local climate
Linnet 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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