Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Cottage.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-ledge-torch
- 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
- Garden Cottage, Peterborough Road, Elton
- OS grid reference
- TL 091 928
- Coordinates
- 52.523, -0.39326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features end stacks with an additional flue on the right-hand stack. The roof is made of Collyweston stone slates and the building is one storey with an attic. The facade is symmetrical, with two ground floor casement windows and a doorway that has a six-panelled door, all of which are topped with segmental brick arches. There is a wooden trellised porch. Additionally, there are three gabled dormer casement windows.
Local climate
Garden 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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