April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-wicket-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- April Cottage, 6, Main Street, Thetford, CB6 3HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 531 763
- Coordinates
- 52.36367, 0.24743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is an early 18th-century brick cottage located on the west side of Main Street in Little Thetford. The brickwork is in a Flemish bond and is painted. The roof is thatched with long straw and has a hip form, with a ridge stack. The cottage is one storey and has an attic, containing one later dormer window. Three original window openings have segmental arches, two now with later sash windows. The original doorway, also within a segmental arch, is now blocked.
Local climate
April 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 2010
- 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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