Little Wissetts is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1980. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Little Wissetts
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-window-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Wissetts, 7, Maltings Lane, Great and Little Chishill, SG8 8SN
- OS grid reference
- TL 423 386
- Coordinates
- 52.02807, 0.07298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Wissetts is a cottage dating from the early 18th century, with 20th-century additions. It is constructed of clay bat and plaster, topped with a thatched roof and features a red brick gable end stack on the right side. The building is two storeys high and has a two-unit plan. On the ground floor, there are two four-light casement windows, while the first floor has two three-light windows of a similar style. A 20th-century entrance is located in a closed porch on the right side. Inside, there is a relined red brick hearth with a mantel beam. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments reported on this property in 1957.
Local climate
Little Wissetts 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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