Kirkby Cottage Windwhistle Ye Old Croft is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1958. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Kirkby Cottage Windwhistle Ye Old Croft
- WRENN ID
- lost-jade-kestrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kirkby Cottage Windwhistle Ye Old Croft, 5, Church Lane, Fenstanton, PE28 9JW
- OS grid reference
- TL 318 687
- Coordinates
- 52.30084, -0.06763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirkby Cottage, Windwhistle, and Ye Old Croft are three dwellings that were originally an early 17th-century timber-framed farmhouse. The building is arranged in a T-plan with a continuous jetty and a two-bayed cross-wing to the west. It is two storeys high, featuring a rendered timber frame, exposed jetty, and plain tile roofs. The south gable wall of the back range has a shaped brick parapet. A ridge stack made of local red brick has four grouped octagonal shafts with moulded brick bands. The first floor includes two three-light wooden casements with rectangular leaded quarries, while the ground floor has two similar but larger windows. There is a six-panelled door aligned with the stack and an oak door to the left. Inside, the property retains original inglenook hearths and moulded ceiling beams.
Local climate
Kirkby Cottage Windwhistle Ye Old Croft 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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