The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- young-lantern-plover
- 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 Homestead, Green Lane, Houghton and Wyton
- OS grid reference
- TL 280 722
- Coordinates
- 52.33351, -0.12203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a mid-17th century cottage located on the east side of Green Lane in Houghton and Wyton. It has a three-unit plan and features timber framing that is rendered on the first floor, with a colour-washed brick casing on the ground floor. The cottage has a half-hipped thatched roof with a rendered ridge stack. It is two stories tall and has three modern casement windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor. There is a modern gabled porch at the front and a modern wing at the rear. Inside, the framing and a soft red brick stack are exposed.
Local climate
The Homestead 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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