King Smith Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
King Smith Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-kitchen-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- King Smith Cottage, 109, High Street, Cottenham, CB24 8SD
- OS grid reference
- TL 452 681
- Coordinates
- 52.29189, 0.12841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King Smith Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century with mid-20th century alterations. It has a timber frame that is cased in brick and rendered. The cottage features a steeply pitched tiled roof supported by original rafters, with a ridge stack and a mid-20th century end stack. It is one storey with attics and includes three mid-20th century gable dormers. The three windows and the doorway, now located in an added rear wing, are also mid-20th century, while the lobby entry doorway has been blocked. Inside, the front and wall framing is exposed, along with the remaining original rafters, and the ceilings have mid-20th century joists.
Local climate
King Smith 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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