Honey Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Honey Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-tower-moss
- 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
- Honey Hill Cottage, 67, Pettits Lane, Dry Drayton, CB23 8BT
- OS grid reference
- TL 382 625
- Coordinates
- 52.24391, 0.02367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Honey Hill Cottage is a 17th or 18th century cottage located on the north side of Pettits Lane in Dry Drayton. The building is timber-framed with plaster rendering on brick sills, and has a gabled reed thatch roof with a grey brick ridge stack. It features a three-room plan and is one storey with an attic. Two gable dormers are present, one with a 19th-century horizontal sliding sash window. Four casement windows were added in the mid-20th century. A doorway is positioned on the right-hand side.
Local climate
Honey Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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