Pax Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Pax Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-obsidian-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pax Cottage, High Street, Abington Pigotts, SG8 0SD
- OS grid reference
- TL 307 444
- Coordinates
- 52.08296, -0.09371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pax Cottage is a late 17th or early 18th century cottage located on the south-east side of High Street, Abington Pigotts. The building is timber-framed with plaster rendering, and has a painted brick plinth. The roof is thatched, with an end stack and a ridge stack. The cottage is single-storey and attic, with a rear outshut and entrance. Originally there were three casement windows, although these have been replaced with 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor. The interior features exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
Pax 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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