Criers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Criers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-cobalt-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Criers Cottage, 140, Caxton End, Bourn, CB23 2ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 318 571
- Coordinates
- 52.19703, -0.07202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Criers Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that has been renovated in the 20th century. It features a timber-frame construction with rough cast render and a pantile roof. The building is one storey with an attic and originally had a three-unit plan. There is a gault brick ridge stack and a plastered stack on the left side. The entrance has a 20th-century porch. The cottage has three ground floor horizontal sliding sash windows and three similar dormer windows.
Local climate
Criers 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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