Briar Cottage Sunnyside is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Briar Cottage Sunnyside
- WRENN ID
- carved-wattle-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Briar Cottage Sunnyside, 135/137, Cambridge Road, Wimpole
- OS grid reference
- TL 333 487
- Coordinates
- 52.12075, -0.05336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage, located on the south side of Cambridge Road in Wimpole, is a cottage that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates back to the 18th century and features a timber frame with roughcast rendering on the east wall, while the front and west end wall are cased in white brick. The cottage has a long straw thatch roof and a gault brick stack. It stands two storeys high and has three casement windows on both the first and ground floors, positioned on either side of a baffle entry doorway.
Local climate
Briar Cottage Sunnyside 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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