Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Manor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-sentry-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Cottage, 79, High Street, Melbourn, SG8 6AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 381 446
- Coordinates
- 52.083, 0.01532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Cottage is a house that was originally the service wing to the Manor House, built around 1710 to 1720. It is constructed of red brick and features a tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with one 18th-century hipped dormer. The first floor has a hung sash window with ovolo moulded glazing bars, while the ground floor has a cross-frame casement window.
Local climate
Manor 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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