Caxton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1993. Cottage.
Caxton Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Caxton Cottage, Lower End, Swaffham Prior
- OS grid reference
- TL 570 643
- Coordinates
- 52.25476, 0.29926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caxton Cottage is a range of cottages that have been converted into a single house, likely built in the late 18th century and extended and altered in the 20th century. The building features plastered cob walls and a pantile roof with gabled ends, along with brick axial stacks. The layout consists of a pair of single-storey cottages arranged at right angles to each other, with the rear left cottage now serving as a rear wing that was extended by one room in the 20th century. This rear wing was reportedly once part of a larger range of cottages. The front range includes a larger room on the right side and an axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces. There is also a late 20th-century extension to the rear right.
The exterior is one storey high and has an asymmetrical two-window northwest front, featuring two and three-light horizontally-sliding sash windows with leaded panes. A similar two-light window is located on the southwest end. The rear wing has two-light casements and horizontally-sliding sash windows, all with leaded panes. Inside, the rooms are ceiled and open to collar level, with exposed wall-plates. The fireplaces have 20th-century chimneypieces.
Local climate
Caxton 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 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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