The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. A Georgian House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-floor-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Cottage, 52, Main Street, Ailsworth, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 118 991
- Coordinates
- 52.57872, -0.35135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th century house that was remodeled in 1863, as indicated by the datestone in the gable. It features a long range of coursed stone rubble and has tile roofs with stone coped gable ends. The south end of the building has a lower roof. The house is two storeys high and has a range of four to five windows, with a gabled design at the north end and gabled first windows. The 19th century windows include two- and three-light mullions, and there is a 19th century splayed bay and a stone porch at the north end. Brick chimney stacks are present, and there are modern extensions at the rear. Inside, the ceiling beams are stop-chamfered.
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 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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