Sycamore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. A Medieval Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Sycamore Cottage

WRENN ID
odd-keep-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 April 1987
Type
Cottage
Period
Medieval
Address
Sycamore Cottage, Main Street, Hamerton and Steeple Gidding, PE28 5QT
OS grid reference
TL 135 798
Coordinates
52.40483, -0.33253
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sycamore Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with renovations made in the 20th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered construction, topped with a plain tiled half hipped roof. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a three-unit plan. There are two 20th-century doors, four ground floor windows, and three dormer windows with sloping roofs, which also have 20th-century casements. Additionally, there is a rebuilt ridge stack located to the left of the centre.

Local climate

Sycamore 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 97% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2019
  • 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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