Rous Memorial Cottages (South Wing) is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1970. A Victorian Cottages.
Rous Memorial Cottages (South Wing)
- WRENN ID
- quartered-brick-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1970
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Rous Memorial Cottages (South Wing), 5-8, Vicarage Road, Newmarket
- OS grid reference
- TL 647 634
- Coordinates
- 52.24424, 0.41212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rous Memorial Cottages (south wing) is a row of four cottages that were formerly almshouses, built around 1878. This south wing is part of a group of three detached ranges that form an open court. The cottages are designed in the Queen Anne Revival style and are single-storey structures made of red brick, featuring a moulded brick eaves cornice. At the eastern end, there is a pediment with intricate red brick carving, displaying a coat of arms and motto within a classical frame. A gablet facing Vicarage Road showcases painted half-timbering with a panel featuring a floral plasterwork motif. The cottages have plaintiled roofs with axial chimneys made of red brick. They also feature splayed flat-roofed bay windows that alternate with small-pane casements, and each cottage has a five-panelled entrance door topped with a flat canopy supported by brackets.
Local climate
Rous Memorial Cottages (South Wing) 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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