Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Willow Cottage

WRENN ID
gaunt-alcove-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Willow Cottage, 9, High Street, West Wratting, CB21 5LU
OS grid reference
TL 607 518
Coordinates
52.14176, 0.34804
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th to 18th century and has been renovated. It features a timber frame with plaster rendering and a long straw thatched roof. The cottage has an axial red brick ridge stack and is one storey high with an attic. There is one gable and one eyebrow dormer. On the ground floor, there are three shuttered casement windows in small openings, and a flat-roofed brick porch is located at the south end.

Local climate

Willow Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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