Home Close is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Home Close
- WRENN ID
- spare-stronghold-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Home Close, High Street, Bury, PE26 2NQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 284 840
- Coordinates
- 52.4389, -0.11196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Close is an L-plan cottage that dates from the 18th century or early 19th century, with origins in the 17th century. A late 19th-century addition is located at the rear. The cottage is built of local brick and features a modern tile roof with tumbled gable ends and a ridge stack. It is one storey high with an attic, which includes two dormers. The ground floor has two modern casement windows. Inside, there is a 17th-century moulding on the main beam in the ground floor room.
Local climate
Home Close 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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