The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- ruined-corner-reed
- 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
- House
- Address
- The Chestnuts, Kirtling, CB8 9PH
- OS grid reference
- TL 699 586
- Coordinates
- 52.20008, 0.48609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is a house that possibly dates back to the late 15th century. It has a timber frame and is plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building features a tall red brick ridge stack and a large side stack on the southeast side. It stands two storeys high and consists of five bays with a continuous jetty. On the first floor, there are three casement windows and one small fixed light window. The ground floor has four casement windows, and the entrance is located in a recessed porch with a boarded door.
Local climate
The Chestnuts 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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- 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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