16, Lotfield Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
16, Lotfield Street
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 16, Lotfield Street, Orwell, SG8 5QT
- OS grid reference
- TL 362 500
- Coordinates
- 52.13217, -0.01115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage located on Lotfield Street, Orwell. The original structure is timber framed and has been rendered with plaster and covered with a reed thatched roof, which is half-hipped at the east end. A rebuilt brick stack is present. The south-west side of the cottage features a modern casement window on each floor. A doorway is positioned within an open-sided thatched porch. A brick addition or rebuild, with pantiled roofing, extends to the west end, and is single-storey in height. Inside, the cottage retains an inglenook hearth and a spine beam with ovolo-moulded run-out stops.
Local climate
16, Lotfield Street 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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