Tinderbox Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Tinderbox Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-plaster-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tinderbox Cottage, 2, Broadwheel Road, Helpston, City of Peterborough, PE6 7EE
- OS grid reference
- TF 120 052
- Coordinates
- 52.63333, -0.34519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tinderbox Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on Broadwheel Road in Helpston. It is constructed of roughly shaped stone rubble with a steeply pitched roof of Collyweston stone, featuring gabled ends. The cottage is a single storey with an attic, and has two windows. The windows are two-light casements. Two gabled dormers light the attic space. A central, modern door replaces the original; it is flanked by brick end stacks.
Local climate
Tinderbox 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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