Wood Shutters is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1987. Cottage.
Wood Shutters
- WRENN ID
- guardian-buttress-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wood Shutters, Abbots Ripton
- OS grid reference
- TL 237 793
- Coordinates
- 52.39839, -0.18201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Shutters is a cottage, likely originally built as a pair, dating from the 18th century. It has been renovated with a rear extension added in the 20th century. The cottage is timber framed and plaster rendered, with a brick wall at the southeast end. It features a long straw thatch roof and is one storey high with an attic. The front has two wood horizontal sliding sashes and a doorway at the northwest end. There is also a small casement window opposite the stack.
Local climate
Wood Shutters 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- No related consent applications matched
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