Highbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.
Highbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-kitchen-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highbury Cottage, 40, College Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 854 638
- Coordinates
- 52.24169, 0.71486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highbury Cottage is a house located on College Street in Bury St Edmunds. It was originally divided into three cottages and features a front that dates back to the late 18th century. The building was restored and largely gutted in 1964. It is timber-framed and has a roughcast-rendered exterior, topped with 20th-century pantiles. The structure is two storeys high and previously included a cellar, which has since been infilled.
The front of the cottage creates the impression of being divided into two sections and has a three-window range. The windows consist of small-paned, two-light casements set in cased frames, which are adorned with moulded architraves, cornices, and sills supported by stub brackets. On the ground floor, there is one fixed window, one small-paned sash window, and one sliding sash window, all within cased frames featuring moulded architraves and cornices.
The interior of the cottage does not contain any notable features, according to the owners. The building is included in the register for its group value.
Local climate
Highbury 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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