Lavender Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. A C16 House.
Lavender Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-storey-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lavender Cottage, the Street, Little Thurlow, Haverhill, CB9 7LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 677 507
- Coordinates
- 52.12971, 0.44971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lavender Cottage is a 16th-century house that features a timber frame and plaster exterior. It has cross wings that project out on the first floor at both the north and south ends. The building is two storeys high, and the windows are primarily double-hung sashes with glazing bars and louvred shutters, although there are some casement windows as well. The entrance includes a six-panel door with raised and fielded panels, framed by a wooden doorcase with pilasters and an open pediment. The roof is tiled and features a chimney stack with a square base and a diagonal shaft. Lavender Cottage is part of a group that includes 116E and 116F The Square, Cock Inn, The Old Post Office, 123 and 123A The Street, Street Farmhouse, Corner Cottage with The Old House, Manor Farmhouse, Gurton Barn, Trudgetts, and 120 The Street.
Local climate
Lavender 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 71% 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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