May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1958. Cottage.
May Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-remnant-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1958
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- May Cottage, 6, St Ives Road, Houghton and Wyton, PE28 2BJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 282 723
- Coordinates
- 52.33401, -0.11911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Cottage, formerly known as White Cottage, is a 17th-century cottage located on the west side of St Ives Road in Houghton. It features a two-unit plan and has been largely rebuilt. The cottage is one storey with an attic and is constructed from part rendered timber-frame and colour-washed brick. It has thatched mansard roofs and two ridge stacks. The building includes modern dormers with casement windows, as well as modern casement windows and a door at the ground floor.
Local climate
May 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 56% 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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