Cardinal's Pen is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage.
Cardinal's Pen
- WRENN ID
- pitched-chamber-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cardinal's Pen, Cardinals Green, Horseheath
- OS grid reference
- TL 622 463
- Coordinates
- 52.09213, 0.36644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cardinal's Pen is a cottage located in Shudy Camps, specifically on the south side of Cardinal's Green. This building dates back to the 15th century and features an open hall with a solar at the east end. It has undergone alterations in the 16th to 17th centuries and again in the mid-20th century. The structure is timber-framed, rendered, and has a long straw thatch roof. It is one storey high with an attic, featuring three eyebrow dormers on the first floor and small modern casement windows on the ground floor. Inside, the cottage displays exposed framing, including two bays of the open hall that have an inserted stack and floor.
Local climate
Cardinal's Pen sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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