Paradise 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.
Paradise Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-cinder-poplar
- 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
- Paradise Cottage, Paradise Lane, Northborough, City of Peterborough, PE6 9BS
- OS grid reference
- TF 158 075
- Coordinates
- 52.65294, -0.28883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paradise Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage constructed from coursed stone rubble, featuring quoins. It has a thatched roof with stone coping at the gable ends and is one storey high with an attic. The cottage has a three-window range with modern casements that include glazing bars, and there are three eyebrow dormers. The central door is also modern. Inside, there is a chimney stack at each end, both of which have been rebuilt at the tops. Additionally, there is a modern one-storey addition at the north end.
Local climate
Paradise 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 85% 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 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 1997
- 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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