Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1972. Cottage.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-storey-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, Thetford Road, Fakenham Magna
- OS grid reference
- TL 908 767
- Coordinates
- 52.35592, 0.80106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage located on the east side of Thetford Road in Fakenham Magna. The building is two storeys high and constructed from knapped black random flint, featuring a white gault brick string course, rusticated dressings, and quoins. It has an internal chimney stack with four plain square shafts that have attached heads. The roof is hipped with a wide eaves overhang and is covered with double Roman tiles.
On the ground floor, there are two windows, each a two-light small-paned casement with semi-circular fanlights and deep reveals, set within arched rusticated brick surrounds. The upper storey has three windows, which are also two-light casements in deep reveals, featuring segmental arched heads and surrounds made of rusticated white brick. The entrance features a plank door with a semi-circular head, set into a rusticated doorway of a similar shape.
Local climate
Rectory 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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