Home Close Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Home Close Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-tower-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Home Close Cottage, High Street, Little Eversden, CB23 1HE
- OS grid reference
- TL 373 532
- Coordinates
- 52.16002, 0.00596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Close Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the east side of High Street in Little Eversden. The building is timber-framed with plaster rendering and a long-straw thatched roof. It has a ridge stack and a three-bay, lobby-entry plan, with one storey and an attic containing one dormer window. The doorway to the lobby has an early 19th-century door with four flush panels. Three horizontal sliding sash windows with small panes, also dating to the 19th century, are situated on either side of the doorway. Inside, a clunch fireplace features double ovolo moulding.
Local climate
Home Close 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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