Daffodil Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1983. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Daffodil Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-mantel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Daffodil Cottage, 72, Hamerton Road, Alconbury Weston, PE28 4JD
- OS grid reference
- TL 175 771
- Coordinates
- 52.37965, -0.27403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Daffodil Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered cottage located on Hamerton Road in Alconbury Weston. It has a gable facing the street and features a two-unit plan with a painted brick wing on the south side. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a corrugated iron roof. A ridge stack with a bread oven projects from the north wall. The street-facing elevation includes two horizontal sliding sash windows that have glazing bars.
Local climate
Daffodil 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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