Gorse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage.
Gorse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-lead-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gorse Cottage, High Street, Little Eversden
- OS grid reference
- TL 373 532
- Coordinates
- 52.16013, 0.0059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gorse Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that has been extended at the road end. It features a timber frame with a rendered exterior and is topped with a long straw thatch roof. The cottage has a red and gault brick ridge stack from the 18th century, which includes some rebuilt sections. The entrance is located at the end facing the road, leading into a lobby, and the cottage has a three-bay plan. There is a doorway to the lobby with later windows on either side. Inside, the framing is exposed in both the walls and the ceiling.
Local climate
Gorse 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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