Schae is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Schae
- WRENN ID
- open-pier-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Schae, Church Walk, Houghton and Wyton, PE28 2AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 278 722
- Coordinates
- 52.33344, -0.12561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Schae is a 17th-century cottage located on Church Walk in Houghton and Wyton. The building is timber-framed and has a rough-cast rendered exterior. It features a thatched, half-hipped roof with a ridge stack made of gault brick. The cottage is one storey with attics and has two modern casement windows on either side of a modern wooden porch that has closed sides, topped with a thatched gable roof. Additionally, there is a two-storey bay added to the left-hand gable end, which dates from around 1900.
Local climate
Schae 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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