1, 3 and 5, West Wratting Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
1, 3 and 5, West Wratting Road
- WRENN ID
- quartered-facade-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1, 3 and 5, West Wratting Road, Balsham, CB21 4DX
- OS grid reference
- TL 588 506
- Coordinates
- 52.13146, 0.31984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three cottages located on West Wratting Road, Balsham. The cottages were built in the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an extension added in the mid-19th century. They are timber-framed, with rendered walls and tiled roofs. A central stack rises from the ridge. The cottages originally functioned as a single dwelling, later subdivided, and now comprise three separate homes.
The original cottages are one storey and have an attic, featuring two dormers. The front has two ground floor windows, one with a 19th-century casement. There are also two doorways; the doorway to number 3 features a doorcase dating from around 1840, complete with a door hood supported by shaped brackets. The door itself, also of the same date, has two glazed upper panels. A boarded door serves number 1.
A mid-19th century extension projects from the north end on the east side. This section has rendered walls and a slate roof, with a side stack. The extension is two storeys high, and features pointed arches above two first-floor casement windows. A doorway is located within a small porch in the angle of the extension.
Local climate
1, 3 and 5, West Wratting Road 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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