School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

School Cottage

WRENN ID
silent-tin-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Constituency
Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
School Cottage, 41, the Street, Kirtling, CB8 9PB
OS grid reference
TL 689 568
Coordinates
52.18377, 0.47033
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century cottage located on the east side of The Street, Kirtling. The building is timber-framed and rendered with plaster, and has a thatched roof. A red brick ridge stack is situated to the left of the centre of the roof. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. There is a left-hand gable extension with a hipped roof covered in plain tiles and a boarded door. The front of the cottage features three ground-floor casement windows, one of which is located within the original doorway. A single gabled dormer window with a casement also projects from the roof. Inside, the original timber frame is exposed.

Local climate

School Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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