Parratt's Garage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Garage. 5 related planning applications.

Parratt's Garage

WRENN ID
bitter-copper-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1951
Type
Garage
Address
Parratt's Garage, 4, 6 and 8, High Street, Kimbolton, PE28 0HA
OS grid reference
TL 100 677
Coordinates
52.29649, -0.38802
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Parrott’s Garage is a long, timber-framed building dating from the 17th century, situated parallel to the street in Kimbolton High Street. The building is two storeys high. It has a timber frame which is roughcast rendered and features applied decorative timberwork. The steeply pitched roof is covered in plain tiles, with some original 17th-century ridge tiles remaining. There are three ridge stacks. Four dormer windows are present, each with a flat roof and a horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars. On the first floor, there are five windows; two are horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars in moulded wooden frames. The front has three house doors, panelled and surrounded by 19th-century reeded architraves. Also present are two modern casement windows and a shop window. The interior includes some 17th-century oak panelling and 18th-century panelling with 19th-century details.

Local climate

Parratt's Garage 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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