Marshalls Cottage Yorke Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House.

Marshalls Cottage Yorke Cottage

WRENN ID
little-dormer-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Marshalls Cottage Yorke Cottage, Wimpole
OS grid reference
TL 336 510
Coordinates
52.14121, -0.04792
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Marshall's Cottage, also known as Yorke Cottage, is a house that was formerly a rectory and is now divided into two dwellings. It dates back to 1597, with alterations in the 18th century and a remodel in 1833. The building features mainly gault brick cladding over a possible timber frame, with some 18th-century red brick on the rear wall of the west crosswing. It has tiled roofs and projecting side stacks on the crosswings.

The structure is a double-ended hall house with two storeys. The door and window openings may be in their original locations, but they were updated around 1833. The windows are hung sashes with raised surrounds and labels that have return stops. Each crosswing's ground floor includes a canted bay with double hung sashes, and above each bay is a six-pane hung sash. The west crosswing displays a 19th-century panel with the initials EM 1597, while the east crosswing features HRY 1833.

The west crosswing was extended at the rear in the 18th century, constructed of red brick with a hipped tiled roof. It has two storeys, with segmental arches and raised surrounds for twelve-pane hung sashes that include ovolo moulded glazing bars. Inside, the roof likely still contains rafters from the 16th-century house. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Marshalls Cottage Yorke 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 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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