The Little House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Little House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-thatch-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Little House, 24, Temple End, Great Wilbraham, CB21 5JF
- OS grid reference
- TL 551 575
- Coordinates
- 52.19457, 0.26888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little House is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or 18th century, featuring a 20th-century lean-to kitchen. The building has a rendered timber frame and a thatched roof made of long straw, with a grey gault brick stack at one end. It has a two-room layout and includes two horizontal sliding sash windows, one of which is located next to the entrance that has a boarded door from the 19th century. Inside, there is an 18th-century mantelpiece above an inglenook fireplace, which is now sealed.
Local climate
The Little House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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