Oakley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1983. Cottage.
Oakley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-lead-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oakley Cottage, High Street, Ellington
- OS grid reference
- TL 160 718
- Coordinates
- 52.33225, -0.29823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oakley Cottage is a mid-19th century painted brick cottage featuring a shallow, low-pitched slate roof and end stacks. The stack to the west is original to a single-storey 17th century cottage, which was timber framed and thatched; one bay of this earlier structure remains to the west and was used as a cobbler's shop. The two-storey brick cottage has three first-floor horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded wooden frames, along with two replacement casement windows in segmental arches. These flank the original four-panelled door, which is adorned with a reeded wooden architrave.
Local climate
Oakley 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 93% 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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