4, The Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
4, The Avenue
- WRENN ID
- sombre-basalt-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4, The Avenue, Leighton Bromswold, PE28 5AW
- OS grid reference
- TL 114 753
- Coordinates
- 52.36467, -0.36424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 The Avenue is a cottage dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with alterations made in the late 17th century. The building is constructed with a timber frame and has a roughcast render finish. It features a ridge roof covered with pantiles, a red brick stack at the ridge, and a gault brick stack at the gable end on the right side. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a three-unit lobby entry plan. The front includes a 20th-century door, three ground floor casement windows, and two gabled dormer windows with casements. Inside, there is a timber-framed and plastered chimney with back-to-back hearths that were inserted in brick, including a baking oven dating to around 1700. The interior also has chamfered ceiling beams and a roof made of hedgerow timbers, which is plastered between the rafters and retains some original thatch.
Local climate
4, The Avenue 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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