The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1983. Cottage, barn. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- veiled-cellar-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage, barn
- Address
- The Cottage, 1, Church Road, Catworth, PE28 0PA
- OS grid reference
- TL 087 731
- Coordinates
- 52.346, -0.40473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th-century cottage with an attached barn and a later service wing added to the east. The cottage is timber-framed and rough-cast rendered, with a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the south gable. A brick ridge stack sits atop the main roof. The barn to the north is a single bayed structure with exposed timber framing and a side purlin roof. The service wing to the east has painted brick facing and an end stack. The cottage has one storey with attics. It features two gabled casement windows with glazing bars, and a plank door to the east wing, alongside two windows. Inside, the cottage includes stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops to inserted floors. Remains of a baking oven are visible projecting from the west wall.
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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- 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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