White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

White Cottage

WRENN ID
gilded-rubble-ebony
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
White Cottage, 15, Park Lane, Dry Drayton, CB23 8DB
OS grid reference
TL 384 620
Coordinates
52.23909, 0.02571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Cottage is a cottage built in 1671. It features a timber-framed structure that is plaster rendered with combed wheat reed thatch. The cottage has a red brick ridge stack dated 1671 at the base, with rebuilt upper courses. It has a three-bay lobby entry plan, along with a contemporary single bay that projects to the front. The building is one storey high with an attic and includes three modern dormers. The horizontal sliding sashes are from the mid-20th century, and the entry is now located at the projecting bay at the front. Inside, there are abutting inglenook fireplaces and an exposed floor frame with joists laid on edge.

Local climate

White 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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