Oak Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. House.
Oak Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-chapel-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Tree Cottage, Church End, Hilton
- OS grid reference
- TL 291 661
- Coordinates
- 52.27851, -0.10829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Tree Cottage is a 15th century open hall with a 17th century cross-wing on the left side. The building features a timber frame, plaster rendering, and colour-washed brick. It has a thatched roof that is half-hipped over the hall range and hipped over the cross-wing, with a red brick ridge stack. The hall range is one storey with an attic, featuring three dormers and three modern casement windows on the ground floor. The entrance is located opposite the stack. The two-storey cross-wing has one casement window on each floor. At the rear, there is a modern thatched range. The open hall originally had a floor inserted in the 17th century.
Local climate
Oak Tree 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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