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

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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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