The Old Inn House is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. A Medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Inn House
- WRENN ID
- empty-remnant-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Old Inn House, Back Lane, Holywell-Cum-Needingworth, PE27 4TQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 340 707
- Coordinates
- 52.31881, -0.03495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Inn House is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of Back Lane in Holywell-cum-Needingworth. It has an L-shaped plan and is one storey high with attics. The building features a rendered timber-frame and a thatched roof that is hipped to the left, with a brick parapetted gable wall on the right. There is an end stack and a ridge stack. The cottage has two thatched dormers, each with casement windows that include glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two similar three-light casement windows. Inside, the cottage boasts stop-chamfered ceiling beams and two inglenook hearths, along with an enclosed staircase.
Local climate
The Old Inn House 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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