Stone Lea is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1974. A Georgian Cottage.

Stone Lea

WRENN ID
stony-pediment-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1974
Type
Cottage
Period
Georgian
Address
Stone Lea, 1, High Street, Castor, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TL 125 985
Coordinates
52.57346, -0.34107
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stone Lea is an 18th century cottage built from coursed stone rubble. It features a thatched roof with gabled ends and has one storey with attics. The cottage has two dormers at the eaves fitted with modern casements, and on the ground floor, there are two modern casement windows with wooden lintels. The front of the building is supported by three rendered buttresses, and there is a modern porch on the right side. It has two chimney stacks at either end and a modern single storey extension at the north end. The cottage is positioned at right angles to High Street, with its back facing Stocks Hill.

Local climate

Stone Lea 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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