Swifts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Swifts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-baluster-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swifts Cottage, High Street, Abington Pigotts
- OS grid reference
- TL 307 445
- Coordinates
- 52.08357, -0.09314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swifts Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage, originally built as a pair, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber-framed structure with roughcast rendering and a plastered plinth. The cottage has a central red brick ridge stack and a half hipped thatched roof. It is one storey with an attic, and each cottage originally had a two-unit plan with an open hearth and a baking oven, though these have been modified. The exterior includes two panelled doors, one casement window, and one horizontal sliding sash window, along with two eyebrow dormer windows. Inside, the cottage showcases exposed timber framing and a floor frame, as well as a boxed staircase located at the south-west end.
Local climate
Swifts 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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