Pips Peace is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. House.
Pips Peace
- WRENN ID
- solitary-window-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pips Peace, Low Road, Kenton
- OS grid reference
- TM 202 652
- Coordinates
- 52.24111, 1.22494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pip's Peace is a house dating from the 16th century, which underwent renovations around 1970, with an additional right cell added in 1973. The building is timber framed and rendered, designed to imitate ashlar stonework, and features a thatched roof. It consists of three cells, is one and a half storeys high, and has three casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, along with a plank door and two hooded dormers. The old range has gable stacks, one of which is now internal.
Inside, the frame is arranged in two and a half bays, with a section on the right missing and replaced by the 1973 work. The upper floor shows widely spaced full-height studs. The left gable has an incomplete diamond-mullioned window. One tie beam has been removed, while the other has mortices for missing braces. The upper floor may have been added later, as the joists are set flat and widely spaced, with one floor beam replaced around 1970. The roof remains intact, featuring clasped purlins and incomplete arched wind-bracing.
Local climate
Pips Peace sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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