Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-banister-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, 10, the Causeway, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth, SG8 5LQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 336 440
- Coordinates
- 52.07854, -0.05143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a small cottage dating from the 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and features plastered and painted brick. The roof is covered with pantiles and has a gault brick ridge stack. The building is one storey high with an attic, and it has a gable facing the street. The main entrance is located in the east elevation and is accompanied by a glass porch. There are two casement windows in the north gable. This cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lilac 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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