Alpha Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Alpha Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-ember-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alpha Cottage, 64, Main Street, Downham, CB6 2ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 523 839
- Coordinates
- 52.43212, 0.23913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alpha Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is built of painted and rendered brick and features an asbestos tile roof, with a ridge stack and a gault brick end stack on the right side. The cottage has two storeys and a rear outshut. The front includes a six-panelled door located to the left of centre, three sixteen-paned flush framed hung sash windows, one hung sash window on the first floor, and two casement windows. The building is topped with a dentil brick eaves cornice.
Local climate
Alpha 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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