Whitings is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Cottage.
Whitings
- WRENN ID
- half-sill-jay
- 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
- Whitings, Fen Road, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 934 678
- Coordinates
- 52.27482, 0.83393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitings is a cottage dating from the early 16th century, with remodelling that occurred in the late 17th century. It has one and a half storeys and a two-cell plan with a lobby entrance. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a thatched main roof and pantiles on a small single-storey extension to the left. The cottage has small-paned casement windows and one dormer, along with a fully enclosed porch added in the 20th century.
Local climate
Whitings 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
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