Ariel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Ariel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-beam-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ariel Cottage, 109, High Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 491
- Coordinates
- 52.12051, 0.16922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ariel Cottage is a cottage that possibly dates from the early 19th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a slated roof. The building has two storeys, featuring a central 20th-century boarded door flanked by two windows with glazing bars. There is also a first-floor window that is top-hung and has glazing bars. This cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Ariel Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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