Twiddys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.
Twiddys Cottage
- WRENN ID
- noble-mortar-elder
- 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
- Twiddys Cottage, 38, Caxton End, Bourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 323 568
- Coordinates
- 52.19388, -0.06561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Twiddys Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located in Bourn, Caxton End. It features a timber-framed structure with rough cast rendering and has an end stack on the left side, along with a rebuilt ridge stack. The cottage has a thatched roof and is one storey high with attics, originally designed with a three-unit plan. The front includes a closed, gabled porch that has a 20th-century boarded door. There are three horizontal sliding sash windows on the ground floor, each with boarded shutters, and three horizontal sliding sash dormer windows in the roof.
Local climate
Twiddys 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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