Rayners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Rayners Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-bailey-dew
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rayners Cottage, 28, Church Street, Ashley, CB8 9DU
- OS grid reference
- TL 699 616
- Coordinates
- 52.22671, 0.48627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rayners Cottage is an early 16th-century farmhouse. It is timber-framed and plastered with a thatched roof. Originally a three-unit plan building, it now has one storey and an attic. It features a ridge stack with grouped diagonal shafts and a rear stack. Five casement dormer windows are visible on the roof, along with five ground floor casement windows. A modern closed porch now stands where the original entrance was located, and a boarded door is present. Inside, late 17th or early 18th-century hearths incorporate a reused original mantel beam. The internal structure includes substantial wall and floor frames, and a side purlin roof with wind braces.
Local climate
Rayners Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- 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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