Formosa Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1980. Cottage.
Formosa Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-rotunda-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Formosa Cottage, 3, Church Farm Lane, Steeple Morden
- OS grid reference
- TL 285 423
- Coordinates
- 52.06446, -0.1256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Formosa Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that has undergone some alterations. It features a timber frame with a plastered and painted brick plinth, and it has a tarred slated roof. There is a gault brick stack on the right side. The cottage is two storeys tall, with the roof raised from its original level. On the front, there is a glazed door, a window with small lights to the left, and a bowed window to the right. Additionally, there is one small window on the first floor. To the right, there is a single-storey gable end extension that is weather-boarded.
Local climate
Formosa 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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