Layer Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Layer Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-trefoil-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Layer Cottage, the Street, Stoke-By-Clare, CO10 8HR
- OS grid reference
- TL 741 434
- Coordinates
- 52.06209, 0.53839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Layer Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered house that has been altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building has two storeys and features a four-window range with double-hung sashes that include glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two three-light square bay windows and a porch that projects from the front. The roof is tiled. Layer Cottage is part of a group of listed buildings along The Street, which includes Green Farmhouse, The Green (Lower).
Local climate
Layer Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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