Lych Gate 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.
Lych Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-loft-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lych Gate Cottage, Bridge Road, Broughton, PE28 3AY
- OS grid reference
- TL 279 776
- Coordinates
- 52.38208, -0.12122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lych Gate Cottage is a late 16th century timber-framed cottage located on Broughton Bridge Road. It features a three-unit plan with an original single-storey sunken dairy on the right side, which was later raised to two storeys. The cottage has a thatched roof and a ridge stack made of local red brick. The rendered walls include four windows of various sizes, all with glazing bars set in cambered arches. There is a plank door on the left side.
Local climate
Lych Gate 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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 2014
- 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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