Pips Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House.
Pips Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-copper-swift
- 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
- Pips Cottage, the Street, Pakenham, IP31 2JU
- OS grid reference
- TL 926 672
- Coordinates
- 52.26991, 0.82218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pips Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It has two storeys and a three-cell plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with some traces of decorative pargetting in the panels. The roof is covered with 20th-century double Roman tiles, and there is an internal chimney stack. The windows include 20th-century casement windows, as well as one 17th-century cast iron three-light casement window with square leaded panes located in the upper storey.
Local climate
Pips 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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