Lantern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1986. Cottage.
Lantern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-wall-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lantern Cottage, 57, High Street, Guilden Morden, SG8 0JR
- OS grid reference
- TL 278 435
- Coordinates
- 52.07554, -0.13599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lantern Cottage is a cottage that was originally a barn, dating from the late 17th century, with 20th-century alterations and additions. The building is timber framed and weather boarded, featuring thatched and pantiled roofs, along with a 20th-century ridge stack. It is a single storey structure with a lower range to the east. The cottage has double glazed entrance doors and four ground floor windows of various sizes. Inside, the original barn consists of five bays and has an angle strut side purlin roof, along with an inserted chimney and room partitions. Historically, it was used as the village slaughterhouse.
Local climate
Lantern 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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