Tree Top Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1983. Cottage.
Tree Top Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-porch-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tree Top Cottage, High Street, Perry
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 669
- Coordinates
- 52.28862, -0.32027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tree Top Cottage is a late 16th century or early 17th century cottage located on the north side of High Street in West Perry. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a wall to the south made of 19th century brick. The cottage consists of three bays and a narrower bay, which may have been used for a through passage. It features a thatched, half-hipped roof with a rebuilt ridge stack. The building is one storey with attics and includes one modern dormer and three modern windows at the ground floor. Access to the through passage is through a modern, gabled, thatched porch. There is an adjoining former dairy bay to the north of the east end.
Inside, the central bay was originally open to the roof. A floor frame was added in the 18th century or later, made of softwood. The north wall plate has a tabled scarf joint, and the stone hearth has been replaced with a modern version.
Local climate
Tree Top 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 93% 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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