Drayton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Drayton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-pillar-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Drayton Cottage, 36, Boxworth End, Swavesey
- OS grid reference
- TL 362 676
- Coordinates
- 52.2898, -0.00312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drayton Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that may have a timber frame encased in brick, which is painted. It features a painted brick ridge stack and has thatched roofs, with the original building having a half-hipped roof on the left side. The cottage is one storey with an attic and follows a lobby entry plan, with a lower range positioned at right angles to the north. There is a modern porch with glazed doors, flanked by two four-paned hung sash windows that have margin lights. Additionally, there are two windows and a door in the gable of the wing, as well as one dormer window with margin lights.
Local climate
Drayton 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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