Kitson Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Early C17 Almshouses.
Kitson Cottages
- WRENN ID
- hollow-hearth-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Kitson Cottages, 1-4, Bury Road, Hengrave
- OS grid reference
- TL 824 688
- Coordinates
- 52.28705, 0.67319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kitson Cottages is a terrace of four almshouses built for Sir Thomas Kitson Junior in the early 17th century and remodelled in the early 19th century. The cottages are one storey high with attics and feature two windows each. They are timber-framed and rendered, showcasing herringbone pargetting, with brick gable walls. The thatched roof has one axial chimney and two gable chimneys made of red brick. Each cottage has gabled casement dormers with carved bargeboards, wrought iron casements with diamond leaded lights, and boarded entrance doors.
Local climate
Kitson 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 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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