Kek Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1974. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Kek Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-chapel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kek Cottage, 49, Main Street, Ailsworth, City of Peterborough, PE5 7AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 117 991
- Coordinates
- 52.57869, -0.35184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kek Cottage is an early 18th century cottage located on Main Street in Ailsworth. The building features white painted rubble that is rendered on the side and has a thatched roof with gabled ends. It is one storey high with attics, and includes two gabled dormers at the eaves. There are three windows, which are casements with glazing bars and wooden lintels. At both gable ends, there are two rebuilt brick chimney stacks. Additionally, at the south end, there is a modern single storey wing with one window and a steeply pitched slate roof.
Local climate
Kek 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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