The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-hammer-bittern
- 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
- The Cottage, 51, the Street, Great Wratting, Haverhill, CB9 7HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 692 484
- Coordinates
- 52.1089, 0.46996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 17th to 18th century. It has been renovated in the 20th century and consists of one storey with attics. The building features casement windows from the 20th century and has a tiled gabled porch that projects at the front. The roof is thatched and includes one gabled dormer. The Cottage is part of a group that includes Malting Farmhouse, No 51 (The Cottage), Thatch End, and Nos 66 and 67.
Local climate
The 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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