Spindleberry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1981. Cottage.
Spindleberry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-corner-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spindleberry Cottage, 1 and 2, Dock Lane, Horningsea
- OS grid reference
- TL 492 627
- Coordinates
- 52.24276, 0.18526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spindleberry Cottage, formerly known as No 2 Dock Lane and later as The Folly, is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one dwelling. It dates from the late 17th century to the early 18th century. The building features a timber frame with painted brick casing and is topped with a reed thatch roof, which includes a ridge stack. It is a single storey with attics and originally had a two-unit plan, including butteries, although the partitions have been removed. There are four dormer windows and five ground floor windows of various sizes, all with glazing bars, along with a door set in a segmental arch. Lean-to additions have been made to the north side.
Local climate
Spindleberry Cottage 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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