Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-iron-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Cottage, the Street, Lidgate, CB8 9PP
- OS grid reference
- TL 723 577
- Coordinates
- 52.19096, 0.51982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on The Street in Lidgate. It has been renovated and altered in the 20th century but still retains its original character. The building is two storeys high, with a gable on the south-west end that jetties on the first storey and is weatherboarded in the gable. It features casement windows. The original thatched roof was replaced with clay tiles in 2005. Willow Cottage is part of a group that includes Hollyhock Cottage, the Star Inn, and the premises adjoining the Star Inn to the south-east.
Local climate
Willow 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 19 transactions since 1996
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