Horseshoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Horseshoe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-lancet-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Horseshoe Cottage, 6, Brook Street, Elsworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 316 635
- Coordinates
- 52.25435, -0.07207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horseshoe Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Brook Street in Elsworth. It is constructed of painted brick, and may have originally been timber framed, with a weather boarded gable on the south side. The cottage features thatched roofs and is designed in an L-shape, consisting of one storey and an attic. The entrance includes a 19th-century door with six reeded panels, positioned in a lobby entry, and is flanked by three-light horizontal sliding sash windows. There are also two similar dormer windows. A central ridge stack made of red brick with gault brick upper courses is a notable feature. Historically, this building was known as the Three Horse Shoes Inn.
Local climate
Horseshoe 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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