Angel Cottage Davors Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. A Post-Medieval House.

Angel Cottage Davors Cottage

WRENN ID
kindled-stone-bittern
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
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
Angel Cottage Davors Cottage, 18, College Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 854 639
Coordinates
52.24225, 0.71489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Angel Cottage and Davors Cottage are a pair of houses that were originally part of a row of four cottages, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. They were extensively restored in 1964. The buildings are timber-framed, with the timber exposed on the upper storey at both the front and rear, while the ground storey is rendered. They feature a plaintiled roof and have two internal chimney stacks.

The exterior consists of two storeys with a six-window range, all featuring 20th-century two-light casements. The ground storey has random 20th-century fenestration and three plain boarded doors.

Inside, both halves of the building are divided into three bays, with the main beams exposed on the upper storey, which includes housings for long braces. In Davors Cottage (No.18), the trimmers have scroll stops, and two internal cross-beams are set on edge, possibly indicating a former smoke-bay. In Angel Cottage (No.20), a large ornate early 18th-century fireplace surround with cast-iron panels, depicting a man and a woman within an arbour-like decoration, was added during the 1964 restoration and is said to have come from Cavenham Hall. The roofs were not seen.

Local climate

Angel Cottage Davors 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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