The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Cottage.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-fireplace-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Boston
Constituency
Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Weirs Lane, Butterwick, PE22 0JP
OS grid reference
TF 378 459
Coordinates
52.9928, 0.05261
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on Weirs Lane in Butterwick. It is constructed of red brick and features a pantile roof with brick coped gables and a single rendered gable stack. The building is two stories high and has a two-bay front. On the ground floor, there is a single margin light sash window with a brick segmental head, alongside a plain sash window set in a blocked doorway. The first floor has another margin light sash window positioned at the eaves. To the right, there is a pent-roofed brick extension, and a catslide roof is present at the rear. This cottage is an example of a Fen half house.

Local climate

The Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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