Sweet Briar is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. House. 4 related planning applications.
Sweet Briar
- WRENN ID
- final-porch-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sweet Briar, Thicket Road, Houghton and Wyton, PE28 2BQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 282 721
- Coordinates
- 52.33282, -0.11911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sweet Briar is an early 19th-century house located on Thicket Road in Houghton. The building is designed in an L-plan and features two storeys with an attic, a one-storey and attic back range, and a later single-storey range to the east. It is constructed from local gault brick and has a plain tile mansard roof, which includes two flat-roof dormers that contain horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The front of the house has a symmetrical arrangement of three hung sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. Flanking the central half-glazed door is a late 19th-century porch, which has red tiled roofing, decorated barge-boards, and colour-glass fixed lights on the side walls.
Local climate
Sweet Briar 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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