Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-portal-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, 1, Church Lane, Hemingford Grey
- OS grid reference
- TL 292 707
- Coordinates
- 52.31932, -0.10457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a late 17th century cottage that is one storey high with attics. It features a thatched roof, timber framing, and rendered walls. There is a ridge stack and an end stack on the right side of the building. The cottage has two plain tiled dormer casement windows with leaded lights, as well as two horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars located to the right of the door. To the left, there is a modern extension that is weather-boarded, which includes gabled dormer windows on the facade and small bay windows at the ground floor.
Local climate
Oak 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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