Priory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Cottage.
Priory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-zinc-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Priory Cottage, High Street, Ixworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 703
- Coordinates
- 52.29688, 0.83035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that features a matching 20th-century extension at the north end. The building has one and a half storeys and is timber-framed, faced in colour-washed brick, with a slate roof. It includes an internal chimney stack with a tall shaft made of plain red brick. The cottage has a lobby entrance and small-paned sash windows, along with four flat-headed dormers. The entrance is marked by a four-panel door and a 20th-century brick porch.
Local climate
Priory 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
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