The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cobble-storm
- 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
- The Cottage, 17, West Street, Helpston, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TF 119 054
- Coordinates
- 52.63493, -0.34669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th or 18th century cottage located on the south side of West Street in Helpston. It is constructed from coursed stone rubble, with the front painted. The cottage features a thatched roof with gabled ends and is one storey high with an attic. There are two windows on the front; the left side has a small eyebrow dormer, while the two fixed-light windows have glazing bars. The right side has a plank door, and there is a brick stack at one end.
Local climate
The 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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