Walnut Tree 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.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-footing-shade
- 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
- Walnut Tree Cottage, 31, Heydon Road, Great and Little Chishill, SG8 8SS
- OS grid reference
- TL 424 390
- Coordinates
- 52.03164, 0.07503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a cottage that may date from the late 17th century or 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and is weather boarded, painted, and tarred, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has a ridge stack located to the right of the center. It is one storey high with an attic. The entrance door is positioned to the right of the center, and there are four twelve-paned hung sash windows on the ground floor, along with three casement dormer windows. A reduced painted brick stack is found at the left-hand corner. In the late 19th century, the cottage was extended to the north-east, and the main entrance was relocated to a lobby entry position. Inside, there is a hearth with a mantel beam and a recess that may have been used for an oven. A 19th-century photograph exists showing the cottage before these alterations, and it is privately owned.
Local climate
Walnut Tree 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 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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