Strangeways is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Strangeways
- WRENN ID
- blind-iron-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Strangeways, 48, Fen Road, Milton, CB24 6AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 481 626
- Coordinates
- 52.24189, 0.16793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Strangeways is a cottage that may have two building periods from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with plastered and painted brick. The roof is hipped and covered with long straw thatch. There is a local brick ridge stack and a gault brick stack on the west gable. The cottage is one storey with an attic, and it has three 19th-century horizontal sliding sash dormer windows along with three similar flush framed windows on the ground floor. The entrance has a boarded door located in a lobby entry position, and there is an outshut at the rear elevation.
Local climate
Strangeways 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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