Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-cellar-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Briar Cottage, Back Lane, Holywell-Cum-Needingworth, PE27 4TQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 340 707
- Coordinates
- 52.31873, -0.03444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, dated 1635, located on the north side of Back Lane in Holywell-cum-Needingworth. The building features a two-unit plan, although it may have originally been larger. It is a single storey with an attic, constructed from timber-frame with rough-cast and a thatched roof. The cottage has a parapet gable made of two-inch local brick and an end stack on the right side. There are two gabled dormers with horizontal sliding sash windows that have glazing bars, along with three ground-floor windows of varying sizes, also with glazing bars. The entrance is through a plank door. An external stack is located on the left gable, where a portion of the cottage was demolished to make way for a weather-boarded studio with a pantile roof, built in 1920 by local watercolourists, the Kings. Inside, the cottage features a large inglenook hearth with two 'salt' recesses, stop-chamfered ceiling beams, and an enclosed staircase.
Local climate
Briar 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 54% 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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