4, West Wratting Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
4, West Wratting Road
- WRENN ID
- western-steel-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4, West Wratting Road, Balsham, CB21 4DX
- OS grid reference
- TL 589 507
- Coordinates
- 52.13177, 0.32068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century cottage located on West Wratting Road in Balsham. It was originally listed as the Post Office and Shop in 1967. The cottage is timber-framed with plaster rendering and has a tiled roof, originally thatched, now half-hipped. A ridge stack features two diagonally-set grouped shafts. The building retains a late 17th-century lobby-entry plan, with a 19th-century shop added to the room at the roadside end. It is a single-story building with an attic, and has two modern dormers. The front features three ground-floor horizontal sliding sash windows and a doorway leading to the lobby. The interior reveals exposed timber framing, some of which has been inserted, along with abutting hearths. These include an inglenook and a marble hearth dating to circa 1840 in the parlour.
Local climate
4, West Wratting Road 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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