The Pightle is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Pightle
- WRENN ID
- salt-buttress-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Pightle, 3, Sheep Street, Leighton Bromswold, PE28 5AY
- OS grid reference
- TL 115 753
- Coordinates
- 52.36474, -0.3637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pightle is a cottage located on Sheep Street in Leighton Bromswold. It dates from the late 17th century or 18th century, with renovations made in the 20th century. The cottage is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a ridge roof covered with pantiles and a local gault brick ridge stack. It has two storeys and a lobby entry plan, with a 20th-century porch at the entrance. The building includes two casement windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Pightle 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 97% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- 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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