Corner Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Corner Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-pavement-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Corner Cottage, Abbots Ripton, PE28 2LY
- OS grid reference
- TL 237 794
- Coordinates
- 52.3987, -0.18228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corner Cottage is a mid-17th century cottage located in Abbot's Ripton, Wennington. The building is timber framed with plaster rendering, and features a half-hipped thatched roof with long straw. A ridge stack has been rebuilt using gault brick. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, including a dormer on the garden side. The front features two enlarged openings with modern casements, flanking a baffle entry doorway. A small pantry window is situated at the road end. The interior includes an exposed 17th century ceiling frame, with a stop-chamfered beam above the hall/kitchen inglenook, featuring run-out stops. A detached wash-house is located at the rear and is timber framed with a tiled roof.
Local climate
Corner 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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