Town Green Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Town Green Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-gable-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Town Green Cottage, 35, Town Green Road, Orwell, SG8 5QL
- OS grid reference
- TL 361 501
- Coordinates
- 52.13317, -0.01218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Green Cottage is a mid-17th century cottage located on Town Green Road. It features a timber frame with plaster rendering and a long straw thatched, half-hipped roof. The upper brick courses of the timber framed and plastered ridge chimney stack have been removed, while there is an external late 17th-century red brick end stack to the south. The cottage has a lobby entry and a three-bay plan, consisting of one storey and an attic. The west front includes one gable dormer and two 19th-century windows, one of which is a horizontal sliding sash.
Inside, there is a framed chimney stack that is now sealed, with ceiling joists laid on edge and stop-chamfered. The red brick parlour hearth, dating from the late 17th century, features repaired brickwork and an original chamfered arched opening. A braced tie beam supports the centre truss, and the layout includes three bays with a narrower chimney bay.
Local climate
Town Green 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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