Broomstick Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Broomstick Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-outpost-primrose
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Broomstick Cottage, 1, High Street, Cheveley, CB8 9DQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 685 616
- Coordinates
- 52.22764, 0.46597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Broomstick Cottage is a cottage that possibly dates back to the 17th century. It has a timber frame and is plastered, featuring a thatched roof with a red brick ridge stack. The cottage is one storey with an attic and originally had a two-unit plan, which was extended by one bay in the 19th century with inserted floors. It has three plain tiled, gabled, casement dormer windows and three three-light windows on the ground floor, along with a four flush-panelled door.
Local climate
Broomstick 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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