Reed Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Reed Cottage

WRENN ID
dark-corridor-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Reed Cottage, 1, Rectory Farm Road, Little Wilbraham, CB21 5LB
OS grid reference
TL 546 585
Coordinates
52.20318, 0.26124
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Reed Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, constructed of yellow-grey brick with mingled brick at the rear, and featuring a mansard roof thatched with reed. The building has two end stacks and is designed in a T-plan, with a two-storey service wing at the rear, which may be a later addition or possibly raised by one storey, as indicated by its low-pitched slated roof. The cottage has one storey and attics, with two dormers. The main elevation includes a doorway with a 19th-century reeded doorcase, flanked by canted bay windows.

Local climate

Reed Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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