Clay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.

Clay Cottage

WRENN ID
night-ledge-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1974
Type
House
Address
Clay Cottage, 4, Clay Lane, Castor, City of Peterborough, PE5 7AT
OS grid reference
TL 122 986
Coordinates
52.57421, -0.34442
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clay Cottage is likely a late 17th century house, originally built with coursed stone rubble. It has undergone significant alteration since its construction. The steeply pitched roof is covered with Belgian tiles and features gabled ends, a parapet gable at the south end, and internal brick stacks, with a ridge stack located near the north end. The house is one storey high with an attic. The front elevation includes two ground floor casement windows with timber lintels, alongside a modern lean-to porch set into an angle formed by a single-storey wing to the southwest, which also has a steeply pitched Belgian tile roof with a gabled end. A modern, continuous attic dormer featuring three casement windows and a flat roof is present. A modern lean-to garage has been added to the north end. Inside, an old piscina is incorporated as a window sill within one of the rooms.

Local climate

Clay 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • 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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