Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. House.
Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-rotunda-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Smithy Cottage, Rushbrooke with Rougham
- OS grid reference
- TL 902 631
- Coordinates
- 52.23357, 0.78431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithy Cottage is a 17th-century house that features one-and-a-half storeys and a three-cell plan. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof that has a decorated ridge. It has one end chimney-stack and another chimney-stack set internally, both with small plain red brick shafts. The cottage includes small-paned 20th-century casement windows, an eyebrow dormer with an old casement window, and a plank door. The timber frame is of a single date, and the entrance door remains in its original cross-entry position. The upper floor displays plain framing and rafters, some of which have assembly marks, along with some reused timbers. An original partition uncovered on the ground floor features a doorway with a rectangular, chamfered surround. The hearth in the middle room, which has been infilled with 20th-century brickwork, retains an original plain timber lintel above. The roof is supported by side purlins.
Local climate
Smithy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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