Whits Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Cottage.
Whits Cottages
- WRENN ID
- open-pinnacle-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Whits Cottages, Upper Town, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 921 677
- Coordinates
- 52.27407, 0.81525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whits Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century that was modernised around 1980. It has one and a half storeys and a two-cell plan. The building is timber-framed, rendered, and features a pantiled roof. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. The cottage has one three-light and one two-light casement window, along with a cabled dormer above that contains a two-light casement window. The entrance is marked by a late 20th-century door.
Local climate
Whits 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 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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