Kates Cabin is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Farmhouse.
Kates Cabin
- WRENN ID
- quiet-grate-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kates Cabin, Great North Road, Chesterton
- OS grid reference
- TL 130 956
- Coordinates
- 52.54711, -0.33436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kates Cabin is a farmhouse that was formerly an inn, dated 1819 according to a plaque. It features painted brick construction with roofs made of Collyweston stone slates and Welsh slates. The building has two ridge stacks on both the front and rear ranges, as well as a gable end stack on the right side, all made of gault brick with stepped cornices, two of which have divided stacks.
The structure is two storeys high with a double pile plan and a front range that has three bays extended to the north. There is a panelled door located to the left of centre, which is sheltered by a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets. On either side of the door, there are two niches with rounded heads and a recessed boot scraper. Above the door is a lozenge-shaped plaque with scalloped decoration, inscribed with 'IW, 1819' in black paint.
To the left of the entrance is a large square bay window, while to the right are one recessed hung sash window and one casement window, both topped with cambered brick arches. The extension has a boarded door. On the first floor, there are three recessed hung sash windows, also with cambered brick arches. The building is finished with a sawtooth brick eaves cornice.
Kates Cabin was formerly known as The Dryden's Head Inn and is reputed to have had an inn sign featuring the poet's head, painted by Bearley.
Local climate
Kates Cabin 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% 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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