The Pink House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Pink House
- WRENN ID
- deep-lead-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Pink House, 50, Heydon Road, Great and Little Chishill, SG8 8SR
- OS grid reference
- TL 424 390
- Coordinates
- 52.03155, 0.07565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A late 18th-century cottage with 20th-century alterations is located on the south-east side of Heydon Road in Chishill. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with 20th-century panelled pargetting decorating the exterior. It has a plain tiled mansard roof, with a ridge stack to the left of centre and an end stack on the right-hand side. The cottage has a three-unit plan and one storey with an attic. The main entrance is at the rear. The street elevation features three three-light casement windows, alongside three flat-roofed casement windows.
Local climate
The Pink House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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