Horseshoes is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Horseshoes
- WRENN ID
- solemn-granite-sienna
- 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
- Horseshoes, 2, Green Hill, Thetford, CB6 3HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 531 762
- Coordinates
- 52.36294, 0.24817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with a later 18th-century extension to its southwest end. The walls are brick, painted, and the roof is thatched with a ridge stack and a tumbled north gable parapet supported by kneelers. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. It has three dormers, each containing a sixteen-pane hung sash window, and four similar hung sash windows on the ground floor, along with one casement window. A doorway is centrally positioned. A southwest bay is an addition, and there is a single-storey thatched wing at the rear. Inside, the ceilings feature exposed beams laid flat.
Local climate
Horseshoes 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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