White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-gutter-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Cottage, 80, High Street, Great Shelford
- OS grid reference
- TL 460 520
- Coordinates
- 52.14726, 0.13286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a cottage, likely from the 17th century, that was converted into two cottages in the 19th century and is now a single dwelling with a 20th-century extension at the rear. The building is timber framed and plaster rendered, topped with a thatched roof and a gault brick stack. It has a single range and a lobby entry plan, standing one storey high with an attic. There are two 20th-century dormers and three windows on the ground floor, including an early 19th-century horizontal sliding sash window with small panes. Inside, the cottage features straight bracing typical of 17th-century framing.
Local climate
White 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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
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- 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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