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

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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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