Wheatsheaf Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage.
Wheatsheaf Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-finial-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wheatsheaf Cottage, 13, High Street, Hemingford Abbots, PE28 9AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 283 710
- Coordinates
- 52.32224, -0.11868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheatsheaf Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that was originally known as 'The Wheatsheaf' Public House. It features a timber-framed structure with 19th-century brick nogging. The cottage has an old plain tile mansard roof and a central gault brick chimney. It is one storey high with an attic, and includes two three-light dormers. On either side of the central doorway, which has a four-panelled door, are two three-light horizontal sliding sash windows.
Local climate
Wheatsheaf Cottage 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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