Terra Cotta Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Terra Cotta Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-chimney-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Terra Cotta Cottage, Moat Lane, Abbots Ripton, PE28 2PA
- OS grid reference
- TL 232 779
- Coordinates
- 52.38527, -0.1904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Terra Cotta Cottage is a house with a 16th-century core, largely rebuilt in the 17th century, and extended on its south side in the mid- to late-18th century. It is timber-framed, with plaster rendering and a thatched roof, featuring a brick ridge stack. The house has a single-range plan of three bays and is one storey with an attic. It has one boxed dormer and three modern wood casement windows on the ground floor. A modern brick porch fronts the centre bay, providing access to the front door.
Inside, the original 18th-century parlour contains an inglenook with a red brick bread oven and a later 18th-century hearth. The original 16th-century house is visible on the first floor, retaining two pairs of intermediate posts. A pair of posts in the chimney bay show downward wall bracing on the north wall. The 17th-century house originally had a single-storey bay at the east end, which has since had its roof raised, leaving the original wall plate and tie beam in place.
Local climate
Terra Cotta 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 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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