Gransden Cottage and the Granary is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1973. Cottage.
Gransden Cottage and the Granary
- WRENN ID
- winding-brass-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gransden Cottage and the Granary, 9, Crowtree Street, Great Gransden
- OS grid reference
- TL 268 557
- Coordinates
- 52.18548, -0.14555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gransden Cottage and the Granary is a late 17th century timber-framed and plastered cottage featuring a two-unit plan and an original lobby entry. The building has one storey and an attic, topped with a half-hipped thatched roof and an original red brick ridge stack. It includes two dormer windows and three ground floor casement windows with lattice lights. Inside, the cottage showcases an exposed timber frame and two inglenook hearths. Attached to the west of the cottage is an early 19th century timber-framed and plastered bakehouse, which has a painted brick end stack to the west, a modern tiled roof with one dormer window, and three casement windows with lattice lights.
Local climate
Gransden Cottage and the Granary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 1997
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