The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. A Post-Medieval Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-timber-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The Cottage, Horse and Gate Street, Fen Drayton
- OS grid reference
- TL 339 681
- Coordinates
- 52.29551, -0.03691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, featuring some re-used materials. It has a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof that is half hipped to the right. The building is one storey with an attic and has a three-unit plan. The main entrance has a boarded door, and there are three ground floor windows, each with two-light horizontal sliding sashes. Inside, there is a re-used axial ceiling beam from the 16th century that has double ogee moulding, an inglenook hearth where a 19th-century baking oven has been removed, and a hearth added to the west room.
Local climate
The 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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