Gaines Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House.
Gaines Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-alcove-torch
- 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
- Gaines Cottage, Thornes, Wickhambrook
- OS grid reference
- TL 743 553
- Coordinates
- 52.1689, 0.54845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gaines Cottage is an early 19th century timber-framed and plastered house. It has two storeys, featuring a two-window arrangement on the front and a single window on each end. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, and the ground storey windows have panelled shutters. There is a central doorway that is topped with a hooded porch. The roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
Gaines 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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