Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-rafter-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, Holywell Front, Holywell-Cum-Needingworth, PE27 4TG
- OS grid reference
- TL 340 705
- Coordinates
- 52.31711, -0.03445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a 16th-century cottage that features an inserted floor in the hall, which is dated 1593 on a ceiling beam. The building is one storey with an attic and has a three-unit plan. It is constructed with a timber frame that is rendered, along with colour-washed brick gables and foundations. The roof is half-hipped and thatched, with a ridge stack. There are two modern dormer windows and three casement windows on the ground floor, along with a modern oak door aligned with the stack. Inside, the cottage has stop-chamfered ceiling beams, a moulded mantel beam, and an original seat for two inglenook hearths. Notably, a tie beam has been removed from its original position in the hall to accommodate a modern rear extension.
Local climate
Oak 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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