Perks Close is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Perks Close
- WRENN ID
- stark-eave-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Perks Close, 4, Chapel Lane, Fowlmere, SG8 7SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 421 455
- Coordinates
- 52.09036, 0.0738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Perks Close is a late 15th or early 16th century cottage, with alterations dating to the late 17th century and more recent restoration work. It is timber-framed and partly plastered, with thatched roofs that are half-hipped to the right-hand side. A rectangular red brick ridge stack is located to the right of the junction with a jettied cross wing to the left. The cottage was originally rectangular in plan, with a single-story open hall and a two-story cross wing of two timber-framed bays. The main entrance is situated on the rear elevation, and the front of the building has two ground floor casement windows and two first floor windows on the cross wing, along with one eyebrow dormer window. Inside, the hall features a cross beam with a large peg projecting above a window. The hall also has two large fireplaces with mantel beams, and a cross beam with quarter-round moulding. The original medieval roof was removed, although parts of the open roof trusses remain incorporated into the north and south walls.
Local climate
Perks Close 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 2 transactions since 2005
- 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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