The Little Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1974. Cottage.

The Little Cottage

WRENN ID
odd-grate-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1974
Type
Cottage
Address
The Little Cottage, Clay Lane, Castor, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TL 122 986
Coordinates
52.57424, -0.34501
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Little Cottage is a small cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is constructed of coursed stone rubble and features a thatched roof with gabled ends. There is a brick chimney at one end. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a dormer at the eaves that includes a three-light casement window. On the ground floor, there is another three-light casement window with a wooden lintel, and a plank door located to the right.

Local climate

The Little 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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