Twites Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse, cottage.

Twites Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
ragged-flint-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse, cottage
Address
Twites Farm Cottages, 1-4, Twites Corner, the Saxhams
OS grid reference
TL 789 638
Coordinates
52.24334, 0.61919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Twites Farm Cottages is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with cottage number 4 added in the 18th century. The building was divided into cottages in the 19th century. It has two storeys and attics, constructed with a timber frame and rendered, featuring mainly 20th-century pargetting. The roof is made of concrete tiles and has prominent gablet dormers. An axial chimney displays saw-tooth pattern shafts on a square base, while a gable chimney has been internalised due to the addition of cottage number 4. The windows include various 19th-century casements and sash styles, along with boarded entrance doors. Notably, there is a 17th-century three-light ovolo-mullioned attic gable window. The roof structure is wind-braced with side purlins. The building was restored around 1970 after a fire.

Local climate

Twites Farm Cottages 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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