Warsley Cottage 200 Yards West of Duncombe Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1983. A C18 House.

Warsley Cottage 200 Yards West of Duncombe Arms

WRENN ID
broken-vestry-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1983
Type
House
OS grid reference
TL 249 546
Coordinates
52.17557, -0.17392
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Waresley Cottage is a house located 200 yards west of the Duncombe Arms, likely built in the 18th century and remodeled in the early 19th century. It has a timber frame set on a plinth and is roughcast rendered. The cottage features an early 19th-century thatched hipped roof with a low pitch and red brick end stacks. There are three flush wood frame windows and a central doorway that is topped by an early 19th-century flat-roofed portico supported by two columns. The ranges to the north are also thatched.

Local climate

Warsley Cottage 200 Yards West of Duncombe Arms 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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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