Park Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Park Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-niche-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Park Farm Cottage, Common Lane, Hemingford Abbots, PE28 9AN
- OS grid reference
- TL 279 712
- Coordinates
- 52.32463, -0.12449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Farm Cottage is a 16th-century cottage located on the south side of Common Lane in Hemingford Abbots. It has a jettied cross-wing to the west. The cottage is timber-framed, with rough-cast walls and colour-washed brick casing up to the first floor. The roofs are thatched and hipped to the left. There is an old red brick gable end stack to the cross-wing, and a modern ridge stack. Dormers are boxed and contain horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The cottage also has a pair of fixed windows with glazing bars, a modern door, and casement windows. The interior features moulded ceiling beams and remains of an original hooded chimney.
Local climate
Park Farm 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 — 14 transactions since 1996
- 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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