Elder Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Elder Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-barrel-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Elder Cottage, St Ives Road, Houghton and Wyton, PE28 2BJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 282 722
- Coordinates
- 52.3337, -0.11926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elder Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the east side of St Ives Road in Houghton. It is a one-storey building with an attic, designed in an L-plan. The cottage features a timber-framed structure with rough-cast exterior and a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the left side. There is an external stack on the right side of the building. The cottage has two horizontal sliding sash windows with shutters, positioned on either side of a plank door that is located to the right of the center.
Local climate
Elder Cottage 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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