White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1987. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-chalk-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Cottage, High Street, Abbots Ripton, PE28 2PA
- OS grid reference
- TL 231 779
- Coordinates
- 52.38555, -0.19162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a 17th and 18th century cottage located on the west side of High Street, Abbots Ripton. It is a single-range building with a three-bay plan, timber framing now rendered with plaster, and a thatched roof featuring a gault brick ridge stack. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and has two dormers. The front has three modern casement windows and a doorway opposite the stack. Inside, there are later inglenooks with slender bressumers. The timber frame has jowled heads and heavy ceiling beams; a beam in the parlour has ogee stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
White 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- 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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