The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-terrace-rain
- 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 Old Cottage, the Square, Barnack, City of Peterborough, PE9 3EA
- OS grid reference
- TF 077 050
- Coordinates
- 52.63212, -0.40922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a 17th to 18th century cottage located on the west side of The Square in Barnack. It is constructed of coursed stone rubble, with the south end rendered. The cottage features a steeply pitched gable-ended roof covered with modern concrete tiles. It has one storey and an attic, with two modern casement windows and a blocked central door. There is also a modern dormer and an internal end stack. Additionally, there is a wing on the corner to the north, made of stone rubble, which has a lower level Collyweston stone roof and wedge-shaped dormers. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Old 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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