Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.
Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-lime-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Cottage, Market Weston Road, Thelnetham
- OS grid reference
- TM 012 776
- Coordinates
- 52.36, 0.95429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century and early 19th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring a two-cell form. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. An external chimney-stack is located at the north end and is enclosed by a small timber-framed extension. The cottage has one three-light 20th-century casement window, two small-paned older windows—one with cast-iron casements and the other with square-leaded panes—and an eyebrow dormer. The entrance is through a plank door.
Inside, the two-bay room on the north side, which includes the entry, showcases exposed framing. It has a main ceiling beam with a 3-inch chamfer and curved stops, while the unchamfered joists are set flat. The room features straight braces halved against the studs and an original clamp supporting the upper floor. The roof is likely a rafter roof without lengthwise strengthening. To the south, there is a section that appears to have been rebuilt, featuring a 19th-century ceiling and roof, with a noticeable change at the plinth level.
Local climate
Hill 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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