Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. House.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-chalk-dew
- 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
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, Church Road, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 941 735
- Coordinates
- 52.32529, 0.84716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century. It has 1½ storeys and three bays, constructed from timber framing and plaster, with some simple decorative pargetting visible. There are single-storey lean-to extensions on both the east and west sides, partly built in brick. The roof is thatched, with a half-hipped design on the west side and a fully hipped design on the east.
The layout follows a basic two-roomed end chimney plan, with a single room above that has been divided into two. Inside, heavy framing is exposed, with no middle rail on the side walls and reversed braces at the corners. There is one cross-entry door featuring mutilated spandrels that is still in use. The fireplace has a wide cambered lintel, and there is an open truss with long arched braces, although the tie-beam has been cut through. Several original window openings are blocked, but diamond mullions can still be seen in the former west gable wall. The house is positioned sideways to the road, situated down a steep slope.
Local climate
Church 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 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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