Black Horse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. House.
Black Horse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-niche-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Black Horse Cottage, Main Road, Elm
- OS grid reference
- TF 469 068
- Coordinates
- 52.63908, 0.16995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Horse Cottage is a house dated 1663, marked with the initials R.S.M. on a stone panel at the gable end of the porch. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a steeply pitched roof covered with 19th-century pantiles. The cottage has an original end stack on the north side and a later end stack on the south.
The building is two storeys high and is framed by rusticated pilasters made of red brick, with a moulded brick band at the upper edge of the thickened ground floor wall. There are original rusticated surrounds, elliptical arches, and raised key blocks above two later three-light casement windows. The ground floor also has two similar casements and their surrounds.
At the north end, opposite the stack, there is an original two-storey gabled porch. Above the porch, there is a now-blocked elliptical window with a rusticated surround, situated above a pedimented doorway that features a similar key block and surround.
Local climate
Black Horse 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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