The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-basalt-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, the Green, Bythorn and Keyston, PE28 0QR
- OS grid reference
- TL 057 758
- Coordinates
- 52.37076, -0.44853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a late 18th or early 19th century cottage located on The Green in Bythorn and Keyston. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a Collyweston slate roof and brick end stacks. The cottage is arranged over two storeys and includes a central boarded door and two 20th-century casement windows to the ground floor, with a matching pair on the first floor. A gable outshut is situated to the south. The interior plan has been altered from its original layout, with an open hearth remaining at the north end.
Local climate
The 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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