Lordship Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1974. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Lordship Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-bailey-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lordship Cottage, 1, Fardells Lane, Elsworth, CB23 4JE
- OS grid reference
- TL 316 637
- Coordinates
- 52.25633, -0.07332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lordship Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with an extension added to the rear in the 18th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring a soft red brick and painted brick plinth. It has a half hipped thatched roof and consists of one storey with attics. The rear wing includes a tumbled brick parapet gable and an end stack, while there is a reduced ridge stack and another stack on the left side. The entrance has a boarded door with a thatched open porch. The cottage has two 20th-century casement windows and three horizontal sliding sash windows, along with four horizontal sliding sash dormer windows.
Local climate
Lordship 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 — 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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