Chestnut House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Chestnut House
- WRENN ID
- swift-copper-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chestnut House, 60, Main Road, Little Gransden, SG19 3DL
- OS grid reference
- TL 272 550
- Coordinates
- 52.1793, -0.13993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut House is a cottage dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame, roughcast render, and a reed thatched roof with a ridge stack made of two builds. The building has a three-bay baffle entry plan oriented with its end facing the road, and it is one storey high with an attic. The south front includes one dormer and two small 19th-century casement windows, likely in their original openings, flanking a boarded door. On the north side, there is a bread oven with the thatch extending down over it.
Inside, the parlour at the west end, which faces the road, has a 19th-century hearth that may have been added when the cottage was divided. An original newel staircase leads from the parlour. The kitchen contains an inglenook hearth, while the openings for the bread oven have been blocked. The narrower service bay retains its original partition between the pantry and scullery. A later staircase has been added. The framing of the cottage features both upward and downward wall bracing, along with stop-chamfered main beams.
Local climate
Chestnut House 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- 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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