Abbots Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Abbots Barn
- WRENN ID
- weathered-latch-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Abbots Barn, High Street, Hemingford Abbots, PE28 9AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 282 710
- Coordinates
- 52.32287, -0.1196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbots Barn is a late 16th century cottage located on the north-east side of High Street in Hemingford Abbots. The building is one storey with attics and features two single-storey wings that face south, one on each side. It is constructed with a timber frame, rough-cast rendering, and colour-washed brick casing up to the first floor. The roof is thatched with a half-hipped main range and includes two ridge stacks. There are two gable dormers with plain tiled roofs and two three-light horizontal sliding sash windows on either side of a central, four-panelled door from the 18th century. Inside, the cottage retains original 16th century framing around the right-hand chimney hood and 17th century brickwork in the left-hand stack.
Local climate
Abbots Barn 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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