3a and 5, Blackhorse Lane is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage, workshop.
3a and 5, Blackhorse Lane
- WRENN ID
- plain-transept-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage, workshop
- Address
- 3a and 5, Blackhorse Lane, Swavesey
- OS grid reference
- TL 360 688
- Coordinates
- 52.30083, -0.0056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage and workshop, originally built as a chapel in 1719. It was altered in 1788 and a rear wing was added in 1879. The roof is now slate and corrugated iron, replacing an original thatched roof. The roof is half-hipped to the west and has a parapet gable to the east, with an end stack where the upper courses have been rebuilt, and a modern brick ridge stack. The building is one storey with an attic. It features a sawtooth brick eaves cornice and a cornice to a later brick porch. There are two three-light casement windows on the west side, and a four-paned hung sash window and a boarded door to the east of the gabled porch. The building was formerly The Old Quaker Meeting house and served as a centre for the Temperance Reformers. Number 3a on the left is now the cottage, and number 5 on the right is the workshop. Records from the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (RCHM) by Stell, in the volume "Cambridgeshire chapels," document the building.
Local climate
3a and 5, Blackhorse Lane 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 54% 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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