12, Duck Street is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Cottage.
12, Duck Street
- WRENN ID
- old-iron-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 12, Duck Street, Elton
- OS grid reference
- TL 086 940
- Coordinates
- 52.53346, -0.40009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Duck Street is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features freestone quoins. The cottage has a thatched roof with parapet gables and red brick end stacks. The entrance consists of a boarded door, and there are three windows of various sizes, each with wooden lintels. Additionally, there are two casement windows and eyebrow dormer windows.
Local climate
12, Duck Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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