Numbers 1-4 Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Numbers 1-4 Church Cottages
- WRENN ID
- swift-buttress-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Numbers 1-4 Church Cottages, Bury Road, the Saxhams
- OS grid reference
- TL 799 637
- Coordinates
- 52.24238, 0.63484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1 to 4 Church Cottages are a terrace of cottages built for the Ickworth Estate, with an 18th-century core. Cottage number 1 served as the village school. The cottages are two storeys high, featuring timber-framed, rendered walls and a thatched roof. A pedimented gable supported by brackets at the eaves level includes a circular window with glazing bars. The axial red brick chimneys have a central stone arched niche between two square flues, resembling the arcaded belfry openings on the church tower across the road. The cottages have 3-light wrought iron casements with small oblong panes; some of the casements have semi-circular heads, while some first-floor windows are of Venetian form with traceried render panels and eyebrow dormers above. The entrance doors are boarded and feature gabled canopies supported by carved brackets, with fish-scale tiled roofs and ornate bargeboards. The cottages were restored around 1980.
Local climate
Numbers 1-4 Church 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 1996
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