Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Chestnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-moulding-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chestnut Cottage, 57 and 59, Ermine Way, Arrington, SG8 0AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 329 498
- Coordinates
- 52.13108, -0.05979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Cottage is a pair of cottages dating from the late 17th century, with an extension added at the west end in the 18th century. The cottages are timber framed, rendered, and have a half hipped long straw thatch roof, featuring two gault brick ridge stacks. They are positioned end to the road and consist of one storey and an attic. The building has five dormers, two of which have thatched gables and three with tiled surrounds. The ground floor includes six modern casement windows and two doorways set in porches. The late 18th-century extension to the west is also timber framed, rendered, and has a long straw thatch roof, with modern window fittings. The framing is slender.
Inside No 59, the layout consists of three bays, with a red brick inglenook and a stop-chamfered main beam. The substantial wall framing features downward bracing and jowled heads to the posts. A smaller red brick hearth in No 59 indicates a subdivision of the space.
Local climate
Chestnut 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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