Chester 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.
Chester Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-belfry-nettle
- 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
- Chester Cottage, Main Street, Barnack, City of Peterborough, PE9 3DN
- OS grid reference
- TF 078 049
- Coordinates
- 52.63198, -0.4086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chester Cottage is a 17th and early 18th century cottage located on Barnack Main Street. It is constructed of coursed stone rubble with a steeply pitched Collyweston stone roof featuring gabled ends. The cottage is one storey high, with a further attic space accommodated by two gabled dormers containing modern casement windows. The ground floor has two modern sash windows with glazing bars and a central modern door. A plank door is situated to the right. Both the right-hand doorway and window are topped with keyblocked lintels. There is an internal end chimney stack.
Local climate
Chester 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- 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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