The Poplars is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. House.
The Poplars
- WRENN ID
- tilted-foundation-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Poplars, Bainton, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TF 102 057
- Coordinates
- 52.63855, -0.37145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Poplars is a 17th to 18th century house constructed of coursed stone rubble, topped with a Collyweston stone roof featuring coped gable ends. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in three bays. It features three-light casements set in segmental headed openings. On the left side, there is a canted bay window with a Collyweston stone roof and a dripmould above it. The central doorway is plain, and there are three old gabled dormers. Brick stacks are located at the ends of the house. At the west end, there is a single-storey wing that includes one three-light casement and a brick stack over the gable. Additionally, there is a one-storey and attic gabled wing at the rear, which also has a gabled dormer.
Local climate
The Poplars 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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