White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-quoin-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Cottage, 82, High Street, Cottenham, CB24 8SD
- OS grid reference
- TL 452 682
- Coordinates
- 52.29337, 0.12884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is an 18th-century cottage, with extensions to the rear. It is timber-framed and has been roughcast rendered, with a thatched roof of reed. The roof features an original ridge stack. The plan consists of two rooms arranged around a lobby entry. The cottage is one storey in height with an attic. There are two 19th-century casement windows on either side of the doorway. The interior was not inspected during the listing process.
Local climate
White 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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