Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Former farmhouse.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-newel-hazel
- 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
- Former farmhouse
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Heath Road, Sapiston
- OS grid reference
- TL 923 759
- Coordinates
- 52.34754, 0.82314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from the 17th century. It has 1½ storeys and a basic three-unit plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a double Roman tiled roof. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft, along with a 19th-century stack at the north end. The cottage features four small-paned casement windows and five gabled dormers, with a central door.
Local climate
Keepers 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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