King's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. A C17 Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
King's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-chancel-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- King's Cottage, 7, High Street, Grantchester, CB3 9NF
- OS grid reference
- TL 432 556
- Coordinates
- 52.18067, 0.09369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's Cottage is a mid-17th century cottage with 18th-century additions, located on Grantchester High Street. The building is timber-framed and has been plaster-rendered, with a tiled roof. An original red brick ridge stack features diagonally set shafts. The original plan was likely of a lobby-entry type, although the present mid-20th century porch is located on the left-hand end. Two storeys high, the cottage has two adjacent horizontal sliding sash windows divided by a mullion on the first floor, along with one horizontal sliding sash window. The ground floor features three windows, including one horizontal sliding sash. A single-bay addition, dating from the 18th century, is framed and tiled with a mansard roof. A small wing, likely contemporary with the addition and originally used as a shop towards the road, is framed, plaster-rendered, and has a steeply-pitched tiled roof. This wing features one casement and one horizontal sliding sash window.
Local climate
King's 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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