Bellams Cottage, Lower End is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bellams Cottage, Lower End
- WRENN ID
- plain-loft-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bellams Cottage, Lower End, High Street, Longstowe, CB23 2UP
- OS grid reference
- TL 305 538
- Coordinates
- 52.16752, -0.09236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bellams Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Lower End in Longstowe High Street. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and a pantiled roof. The original stack has been rebuilt in the 19th century using gault brick above the ridge, and there is also a 19th-century end stack made of gault brick. The cottage has a three-bay plan and consists of one storey with an attic. There are two 19th-century dormers with rebuilt gables, and on the ground floor, there are three modern windows on either side of a baffle entry doorway.
Local climate
Bellams Cottage, Lower End 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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