House to South of Grimstone Cottage (The Old Shop) is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House.
House to South of Grimstone Cottage (The Old Shop)
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-lead-yew
- 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
- House to South of Grimstone Cottage (The Old Shop), Grimstone End, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 937 691
- Coordinates
- 52.28606, 0.83887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located to the south of Grimstone Cottage (The Old Shop), is a former house and shop that dates back to the 18th century. It has two storeys in some parts and one storey in others. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with pantiled roofs. There is an end chimney stack with a plain shaft. The building features two windows, which are sashes set in flush frames with vertical glazing bars. An off-centre door is accompanied by a late 19th-century open timber porch. Additionally, there is an early 19th-century single-storey extension on the north side that originally contained the shop, which includes a small-paned canted bow window.
Local climate
House to South of Grimstone Cottage (The Old Shop) 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- No related consent applications matched
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