The Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Cottage.
The Timbers
- WRENN ID
- patient-moat-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Timbers, 1, 2, 3 and 4, Sapiston Road, Honington
- OS grid reference
- TL 913 747
- Coordinates
- 52.33727, 0.80724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Timbers consists of two matching pairs of estate cottages built around 1870. They are two storeys high and constructed from red brick, topped with black glazed pantiled roofs that feature deep eaves and fluted barge-boards. Each cottage has an internal chimney stack with three square shafts set diagonally on a rectangular base. There are three windows on each storey: two outer two-light windows and a single central window, all fitted with ornamental cast iron casements that have angular tracery. The end doors are sheltered by gabled, slated porches supported on heavy solid brackets, with barge-boards that match those on the gables. Additionally, there are lean-to extensions along the rear of the cottages.
Local climate
The Timbers 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 86% 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 53% 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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