Post Office Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Post Office Cottages
- WRENN ID
- old-pavement-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Post Office Cottages, 26 and 28, High Street, Dry Drayton
- OS grid reference
- TL 379 622
- Coordinates
- 52.24126, 0.01887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Office Cottages are a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are timber-framed and rendered, now featuring a plastic thatch roof. The cottages share a red brick ridge stack and a string course. The layout is a single range plan, with each cottage containing one heated room and a pantry on the ground floor. The buildings are one storey high with an attic, and they have two dormers. There are two 19th century hung sash windows and two 20th century doors at the doorways, which may be in their original locations.
Local climate
Post Office Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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