Magpie Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Magpie Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-ashlar-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Magpie Cottage, 19, Fox Street, Great Gransden, SG19 3AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 270 560
- Coordinates
- 52.18779, -0.14268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magpie Cottage is a 18th-century cottage located on Fox Street in Great Gransden. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a two-unit plan. The cottage has a central red brick ridge stack and a thatched roof. It is one storey high with an attic and includes three casement windows. The main entrance is accessed through a thatched open porch. There is a modern lean-to on the right side with a pantile roof.
Local climate
Magpie Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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