Beech Cottage and Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.

Beech Cottage and Ivy Cottage

WRENN ID
woven-groin-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Beech Cottage and Ivy Cottage, the Street, Stanton
OS grid reference
TL 966 731
Coordinates
52.32134, 0.88455
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beech Cottage and Ivy Cottage are two houses dating from the 15th century, originally designed as an open hall but divided into two in the early 19th century. The buildings are one-and-a-half storeys tall, featuring timber framing with plaster panels that have a comb pattern, and they are topped with thatched roofs. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft.

The ground floor has three small-paned sash windows set in flush frames, while the upper floor includes four gabled dormers with plain tiled roofs and three-light single bar casements. There are two half-glazed doors with moulded surrounds: one leads to a small gabled porch at Beech Cottage, and the other is part of an early 19th-century two-storey extension with a shallow-pitched pantiled roof at the southern end.

Inside, the house retains the remains of a two-bay open hall, featuring a smoke-blackened crown-post roof with a short crown-post that is braced in four directions at the head. The entrance door to Ivy Cottage, located on the north side, opens into the original cross-entry, which has an inserted chimney stack backing against it. The service end has two doorways with plain four-centred arched heads, and the two service rooms were combined into one and extended in the 17th century, with an additional chimney stack added to the north gable wall.

Local climate

Beech Cottage and Ivy 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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