Apple Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.

Apple Tree Cottage

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Apple Tree Cottage, Toft Road, Bourn
OS grid reference
TL 332 557
Coordinates
52.18381, -0.05253
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Apple Tree Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage featuring clay bat rendering and a painted thatched roof. The building stands two storeys high and has an end stack on the right side. The entrance consists of a boarded door, accompanied by a large fixed light window with glazing bars and small panes to the right. On the first floor, there are two horizontal sliding sash windows.

Local climate

Apple Tree 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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