Byfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. A C16 House.

Byfield Cottage

WRENN ID
gentle-lintel-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 April 1987
Type
House
Address
Byfield Cottage, Bythorn and Keyston
OS grid reference
TL 057 758
Coordinates
52.37086, -0.44807
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Byfield Cottage is a house that dates back to the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century. Part of the original structure was demolished to accommodate a 19th-century addition. The building is constructed of timber framing with plaster and brick, and it features painted brick casing. It has thatched roofs. The original cottage was a single storey with an attic and has a three-unit plan, including an open hall and a single-storey rear wing that was formerly a dairy, located to the north of the 19th-century two-storey range.

The front of the cottage has a 19th-century door with four flush panels on the left side, three ground floor three-light casement windows, and one window that replaced a former doorway on the right side. There are also two eyebrow dormer windows and two first-floor casement windows. The 19th-century range features a corbelled parapet gable and a sawtooth brick eaves cornice.

Inside, there is a 17th-century inserted floor frame with a stop-chamfered ceiling beam, and the original 16th-century roof includes a ridge piece and smoke-blackened rafters. The flooring features 19th-century tiles.

Local climate

Byfield 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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