21 and 23, The Town is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1959. Cottage.
21 and 23, The Town
- WRENN ID
- brooding-pediment-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 21 and 23, The Town, Great Staughton
- OS grid reference
- TL 122 645
- Coordinates
- 52.26805, -0.35587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 21 and 23 The Town are an early 18th century pair of cottages. They are two storeys tall, constructed of local red brick, and feature a plain tile hipped roof with two symmetrically positioned ridge stacks. The cottages have a dentil brick eaves cornice. On the first floor, there are four horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars, wooden lintels, and two blind windows. The ground floor has four horizontal sliding sash windows set in segmental arches. There is one plank door and one modern panelled door, both adorned with 19th century shaped bracketed canopies. A band runs between the floors.
Local climate
21 and 23, The Town sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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