Whiting Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Farmhouse.
Whiting Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-cupola-bone
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Whiting Farm Cottage, Fen Road, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 934 678
- Coordinates
- 52.27471, 0.834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whiting Farm Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with extensions added in the late 18th century and some alterations made to the exterior in the 20th century. The building is 1 and a half storeys tall and has a three-cell plan, positioned sideways to the road. It features a timber frame that is partially plastered, with the west end faced in 20th-century brick and the south side faced in 20th-century fletton brick. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain shaft, and the cottage has 20th-century casement windows along with one flat-headed dormer. The timber framing is exposed on the interior. To the east of the house, there is the pit of the former whiting works, which has been disused since the 1950s.
Local climate
Whiting Farm 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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