Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.

Oak Cottage

WRENN ID
quartered-rafter-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Oak Cottage, 13, Broad Lane, Haslingfield
OS grid reference
TL 403 523
Coordinates
52.15129, 0.05011
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oak Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, plaster render, and a longstraw thatched roof, featuring a half-hipped design and an original axial ridge stack with a narrow string course. The layout follows a lobby entry plan, with a narrower dairy located in the service bay to the right. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and it has two dormers. There are two flush frame horizontal sliding sash windows on either side of the doorway leading to the lobby entry.

Inside, there is an inglenook hearth made of red brick, which has a later hearth abutting it in the parlour. The main beams are chamfered and ovolo moulded, with stops. In around 1820, the interior was remodeled, which included inverting a partition wall on the first floor between the service end and the chamber over the hall. Two staircases were added: one in the service end and the principal one at the back. The late 17th-century vase-shaped balusters from the staircase of the now-demolished Haslingfield Hall (which was taken down around 1819) and some ovolo moulded timbers have been incorporated into the partition wall and staircases.

Local climate

Oak Cottage 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 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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