Wind in the Willows is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1980. Cottage.

Wind in the Willows

WRENN ID
narrow-grate-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Wind in the Willows, 23, West Street, Helpston, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TF 119 054
Coordinates
52.63495, -0.34718
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wind in the Willows is a building that was formerly two cottages, which have been converted into one. The eastern part dates from the 17th or early 18th century and is constructed of coursed stone rubble with a thatched roof featuring coped gable ends. It is a single storey with an attic and has two windows, which are modern two-light casements with glazing bars. There are end chimney stacks. The western part is an early 19th-century cottage, also made of coursed stone rubble, with a low-pitched pantile roof and coped gable ends. This section is two storeys high, has two windows with modern two-light casements with glazing bars, and a modern door to the left, along with an end brick stack.

Local climate

Wind in the Willows 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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