Claypit Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1974. Cottage.
Claypit Cottages
- WRENN ID
- grim-tallow-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Claypit Cottages, 80 and 82, High Street, Coton
- OS grid reference
- TL 408 589
- Coordinates
- 52.21066, 0.06054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Claypit Cottages is a cottage that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the mid 17th century, with restorations and extensions made in the mid 20th century. The building is timber-framed, rendered, and features a steeply pitched tiled roof with a red brick ridge stack, which has been partially rebuilt in grey brick. An end stack was added in the 19th century. The cottage consists of four bays, including a fire bay and a likely lobby entry, and is two storeys high.
On the west elevation, there are mid 20th century horizontal sliding sash windows at the first floor, while the ground floor has larger windows, also from the mid 20th century. Inside, the cottage features abutting inglenook hearths with stop-chamfered lintels. The framing is exposed, with downward bracing visible at the first floor. The floor joists have been replaced in one end bay, and the roof is a through-purlin type.
Local climate
Claypit Cottages 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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