Carnaby Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1983. Cottage.
Carnaby Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-iron-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Carnaby Cottage, 7, Church Yard, Kimbolton
- OS grid reference
- TL 099 679
- Coordinates
- 52.29824, -0.3895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carnaby Cottage is a late 17th century or early 18th century cottage located in Kimbolton Church Yard. It is timber framed and has a roughcast rendered exterior. The cottage features a steeply pitched, plain tiled roof with a ridge stack. It is two storeys high. On the south gable end, there is one horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars on the first floor, and at the ground floor, there is one large similar window and a modern doorway. The east elevation has two similar sash windows. There is an adjoining outshut to the west, which is also timber framed, rendered, and has a plain tiled roof.
Local climate
Carnaby 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 92% 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
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- 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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