Durley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. A C17 Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Durley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-casement-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Durley Cottage, Rectory Lane, Houghton and Wyton, PE28 2AQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 277 723
- Coordinates
- 52.33412, -0.1263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Durley Cottage is a 17th-century L-shaped cottage located in Wyton. It has a timber frame, now roughly cast and rendered, with a brick gable end featuring two horizontal bands. The roof is thatched and includes a gault brick detail and an end stack. The cottage is single-storey with attics, and features one dormer window with a casement. Two horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars are situated on either side of a modern, thatched, gabled porch. The front door consists of two flush panels and one glazed panel.
Local climate
Durley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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