Owls Hoot is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Owls Hoot
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-cobble-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Owls Hoot, Haverhill Road, Castle Camps, CB21 4TB
- OS grid reference
- TL 631 437
- Coordinates
- 52.06852, 0.37921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Owls Hoot is a late 17th-century cottage located on the west side of Haverhill Road, Castle Camps. Originally a three-bay dwelling, only two bays remain. The building is timber-framed and largely rendered, with a long-straw thatched roof. A ridge stack is present, originally square and later extended with a side stack. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with a single dormer on the east side. On the east side of the building are two 19th-century small-pane horizontal sliding sash windows with baffle entry doorways. The exposed timber framing features staggered bracing and jowled post heads. A 20th-century extension is present. Internally, the cottage contains an inglenook hearth and an original staircase off the hall.
Local climate
Owls Hoot sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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