Bramley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bramley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-flagstone-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bramley Cottage, 9, Fowlmere Road, Heydon
- OS grid reference
- TL 431 400
- Coordinates
- 52.04057, 0.08574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bramley Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with alterations from the late 17th century and a 20th-century addition to the south-west. It features a timber-framed and plastered brick north-east gable and a half-hipped thatched roof, which has a rectangular red brick ridge stack positioned to the right of center. The cottage is one storey with an attic and originally had a three-unit plan, possibly including an open hall, as indicated by the hearth stone and reredos made of field pebbles found when the hearth was unblocked.
The cottage has a 20th-century thatched porch with a boarded door, and there are four ground floor windows, including one three-light horizontal sliding sash window. There is also one casement dormer eyebrow window with plain tiles below. Inside, the timber-frame is plastered, and the north-east floor frame contains reused joists. A stop-chamfered cross beam is present in the hall. The hearth includes two baking ovens and two niches that originally had shaped heads. The roof has side purlins with a pair of blackened rafters located beside the chimney.
Local climate
Bramley Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 1997
- 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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