Wimpy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.
Wimpy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-facade-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wimpy Cottage, Mill Road, Barningham
- OS grid reference
- TL 969 768
- Coordinates
- 52.35413, 0.89043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wimpy Cottage is a 18th-century cottage with one-and-a-half storeys and a two-cell plan. It is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage features two end chimney stacks: one is original and located within the frame on the east side, while the other is a later addition set externally on the west side. The ground storey has small-paned casement windows and there is one gabled dormer. Inside, the cottage has plain, light framing with exposed primary braces and bisected studs. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Wimpy 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings