White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-cloister-yew
- 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
- House
- Address
- White Cottage, the Street, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 926 672
- Coordinates
- 52.27005, 0.82275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a 17th-century house that stands at one and a half storeys. It features a three-cell plan with a lobby entrance. The building is constructed with a timber frame and roughcast finish, topped with double Roman tiles. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain shaft. The house has three windows, which are 20th-century three-light casements, and includes one gabled dormer.
Local climate
White 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 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 — 21 transactions since 1997
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- Radon risk assessment
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