Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 July 1977. A Early Modern Cottage.

Manor Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-plinth-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 July 1977
Type
Cottage
Period
Early Modern
Address
Manor Cottage, Papworth St. Agnes
OS grid reference
TL 268 645
Coordinates
52.26476, -0.14264
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Cottage is a 17th-century cottage constructed with a timber frame and covered in long straw thatch. It features a ridge stack and a 20th-century stack on the right side. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and it has three horizontal sliding sash windows with shutters on the ground floor, along with four similar dormer windows. There is a boarded door located to the right of the center.

Local climate

Manor 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 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 56% 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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