Church House St Giles Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House.

Church House St Giles Cottage

WRENN ID
tall-landing-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1955
Type
House
Address
Church House St Giles Cottage, Church Street, Risby
OS grid reference
TL 802 663
Coordinates
52.26552, 0.63962
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House and St. Giles Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations from the 18th century. Originally a farmhouse, it has two storeys and attics, and features a rendered exterior with a plain clay tiled roof. The building includes some 18th-century cruciform casement windows and a fielded six-panel entrance door topped with a flat canopy. There is a late 18th-century semi-octagonal two-storey bay window with a flat roof, coved cornice, and moulded fascia, as well as an axial cruciform chimney. An 18th-century wing extends towards the street. St. Giles Cottage, which is a rear wing from the early to mid-18th century and was once part of Church House, has one and a half storeys, attics, and an axial chimney. It is timber-framed, rendered, and has a gambrel roof covered with plain clay tiles. The cottage features some 18th-century casements and two boarded entrance doors with pedimented pentices supported by brackets.

Local climate

Church House St Giles 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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