Meadow Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1981. A C18 Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Meadow Cottages
- WRENN ID
- young-railing-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1981
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Meadow Cottages, 1 and 3, High Street, Castle Camps, CB21 4SP
- OS grid reference
- TL 632 433
- Coordinates
- 52.06481, 0.38053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadow Cottages are a row of two cottages, originally a single building, dating from the 18th century, with a possible extension later. The construction is timber-framed with rendered plaster walls and a long-straw thatched, half-hipped roof. Two ridge stacks are present. The building is arranged in a straight range with a face towards the road. It is a single storey with an attic. The front facade has two windows and a doorway, all of modern design. The north side features one dormer window and four small-pane casement windows, along with a doorway.
Local climate
Meadow Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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