West View is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Cottage.
West View
- WRENN ID
- second-gargoyle-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- West View, 37, High Street, Swaffham Prior, CB25 0LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 567 640
- Coordinates
- 52.25217, 0.29548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West View is a cottage dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plaster-rendered exterior, topped with a red pantile roof and a gault brick ridge stack. The building features a three-bay layout with a lobby entry plan and an outshut at the rear. It stands two storeys high and includes three original flush frame horizontal sliding sash windows with small panes on both the first and ground floors. There is a panelled door located opposite the stack, which is framed by a reeded surround.
Local climate
West View 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
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