The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-quartz-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The White Cottage, Royal Oak Lane, Hemingford Abbots
- OS grid reference
- TL 282 708
- Coordinates
- 52.32115, -0.11933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a late 17th century cottage located on Royal Oak Lane. It is a one-storey building with attics, constructed from timber framing and rough-cast, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage features a central red brick chimney stack, two dormer windows, and two horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance is marked by a central plank door.
Local climate
The White 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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