Old Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Old Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-chancel-hawthorn
- 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
- Old Thatched Cottage, 11, Middle Street, Elton, PE8 6RA
- OS grid reference
- TL 086 938
- Coordinates
- 52.53133, -0.39928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Thatched Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that has undergone 19th-century alterations and 20th-century renovation. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings and features a thatched roof. The building has tall parapet gables with chamfered copings and shaped corbels, with an end stack on the left side and a former ridge stack that has been demolished. The cottage is one storey and has an attic, originally designed with a three-unit plan that was converted into three cottages in the 19th century. The central 20th-century boarded door is flanked by three ground floor casement windows that have chamfered-slopped wooden lintels. There is also a central two-light ovolo mullioned dormer window with a facade parapet. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered axial beams and three open hearths with original mantel beams.
Local climate
Old Thatched Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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