Honeysuckle Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A C15 House.
Honeysuckle Cottages
- WRENN ID
- scarred-lead-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Honeysuckle Cottages, 1 and 2, the Green, Risby
- OS grid reference
- TL 796 664
- Coordinates
- 52.26708, 0.63097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Honeysuckle Cottages is a house dating from the 15th century, which originally featured an open hall but underwent significant alterations and extensions in the late 16th century. The structure consists of a central hall range with a service wing on the right, which was rebuilt in the late 16th century, and a jettied parlour wing on the left from the same period. The building stands two storeys high, with both wings having attics. It is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plain clay tiled roof.
The property features various 19th and 20th-century casement and sash windows, along with a late 16th-century mullioned window that can be seen from the inside. There is a cross-passage entry that includes an early 19th-century six-panel entrance door with a flat canopy above. The roofs are wind-braced with clasped purlins. The hall has been floored over, re-roofed, and a stack was inserted backing onto the cross-passage in the late 16th century. The 16th-century parlour showcases good framing, while the end chimney is enclosed by a rear 18th-century staircase in the wing. Additionally, there is a rear cross-passage porch that is an early addition.
Local climate
Honeysuckle 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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