Gate House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Gate House
- WRENN ID
- lost-corridor-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gate House, Horse and Gate Street, Fen Drayton, CB24 4SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 339 681
- Coordinates
- 52.2956, -0.03734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th or early 18th century cottage located in Horse and Gate Street, Fen Drayton. It is timber-framed with pine, and the frame is plastered with applied timber frame decoration. The structure incorporates early 18th century brick and gault brick, and is roofed with thatch. The original three-unit plan has been extended to the east, with the original lobby entry blocked and the main entrance now in the rear elevation. There are three ground floor windows, each with three- or two-lights, and one dormer window with a horizontal sliding sash. The brick gable features a tumbled parapet and a red brick ridge stack. The interior reveals exposed pine floor joists with stop-chamfered joists and run-out stops, along with a pine roof with a ridge piece. Straight braces are visible on the timber frame. Originally the Horse and Gate Inn, the building's details were documented by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for England in 1950.
Local climate
Gate House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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