Mole Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Mole Barn
- WRENN ID
- second-moat-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mole Barn, High Street, Brington and Molesworth, PE28 0QF
- OS grid reference
- TL 074 758
- Coordinates
- 52.37034, -0.42392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mole Barn is a cottage dating to the 17th century, with 20th-century alterations and renovation. It is timber-framed with roughcast rendering, a painted brick plinth, and thatched roofs. The cottage has a two-unit plan, with a single-storey range to the rear. A tall central brick ridge stack and a reduced side stack are present. There is a 20th-century gabled porch entrance, two ground-floor casement windows, and two eyebrow casement dormer windows. The interior features a cross passage behind a hearth constructed of coursed limestone rubble with some dressed stones. Exposed timber framing and floor frames are visible.
Local climate
Mole Barn 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 8 transactions since 1995
- 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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