Well Cottage and Penn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House.
Well Cottage and Penn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-merlon-sepia
- 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
- Well Cottage and Penn Cottage, Upper Town, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 921 677
- Coordinates
- 52.27419, 0.81552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage and Penn Cottage is a 17th-century building that has been divided into seven cottages. A plaque on the front indicates it was restored in 1980. The structure is 1 and a half storeys high, timber-framed, and rendered, with a pantiled roof. It features one chimney stack at one end and another on the rear wall. There are four windows, which are small-paned 20th-century casements, along with three gabled dormers.
Local climate
Well Cottage and Penn 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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