Poets Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. Cottage.
Poets Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-hinge-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Poets Cottage, 6, Carter Street, Fordham
- OS grid reference
- TL 630 708
- Coordinates
- 52.31167, 0.38988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poets Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Carter Street in Fordham. It is constructed of clunch, which is painted and plastered, and features red pantile roofs along with a tall, local brick chimney stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan with a lower range at right angles, consisting of one storey and an attic. The windows are designed with Gothic two-centred arches and include glazing bars, while there is a boarded door located on the left side. This cottage was the home of James R. Withers, a local poet who lived from 1812 to 1892.
Local climate
Poets Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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