Cudworth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Cudworth Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-clay-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cudworth Cottage, 20, High Street, Great Wilbraham, CB21 5JD
- OS grid reference
- TL 549 573
- Coordinates
- 52.19267, 0.26578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cudworth Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1647, located on the northwest side of High Street in Great Wilbraham. The building features timber framing that is rendered, with a steeply pitched roof made of long straw and a grey gault brick ridge stack as well as an end stack. The original design consists of three bays with a lobby entry. It is two storeys high and has four windows on the first floor, three of which are horizontal sliding sashes. The ground floor has three similar shuttered windows and two boarded doors, one located opposite the stack.
Inside, the cottage reveals exposed framing and stop-chamfered main beams. There are inglenooks that abut, and on the first floor, two rooms are open to the roof. The cottage is historically linked to Reverend Ralph Cudworth, who served as the Curate of Great Wilbraham from around 1647. A bay was added to the left side of the cottage in the mid-20th century.
Local climate
Cudworth Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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