Washdyke Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Washdyke Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-footing-hazel
- 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
- Washdyke Cottage, Washdyke Lane, Old Leake, PE22 9RQ
- OS grid reference
- TF 391 532
- Coordinates
- 53.05831, 0.07481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Washdyke Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage of the Fen half house type. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond of three, topped with a pantile roof featuring brick-coped, partly tumbled gables and a single brick gable stack. The cottage is a single storey with a single bay front, which includes margin light sash windows on both floors. To the right, there is a blocked doorway. All openings are topped with brick segmental heads. The gable end features a brick inscribed with "ID".
Local climate
Washdyke Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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