The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-storey-fen
- 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
- Address
- The Cottage, 3, Sparhawk Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 857 638
- Coordinates
- 52.24181, 0.71852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and roughcast exterior, topped with a slate roof. The building has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. It features a two-window range, with 12-pane sash windows on the first storey and 16-pane sash windows on the ground storey, all set in flush cased frames. There is one dormer window with a segmental head. The front door has six raised fielded panels and is framed by a narrow wood architrave, with a foot-scraper located beside it. The interior does not reveal any earlier features.
Local climate
The 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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