Reed 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.
Reed Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-bailey-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Reed Cottage, Holywell Front, Holywell-Cum-Needingworth, PE27 4TG
- OS grid reference
- TL 341 706
- Coordinates
- 52.31721, -0.03358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reed Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Holywell, near Needingworth. It has a three-unit plan and is one storey high with attics. The building is timber-framed and has a rough-cast exterior. The roof is thatched, and it features a ridge stack with a recess dividing two shafts, and a brick end stack on the right-hand side, constructed of local red brick. There are three horizontal sliding sash dormer windows with glazing bars. The front of the cottage also has three small, modern bay windows and a plank door with a leaded light panel.
Local climate
Reed 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 2019
- 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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