Ash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. A Medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Ash Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-shingle-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Ash Cottage, 27, Fowlmere Road, Heydon, SG8 8PZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 430 402
- Coordinates
- 52.0422, 0.08494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with alterations from the late 17th century and a 20th-century addition to the west. It features a substantial timber frame with a brick extension that is plastered. The roof is half hipped and thatched, while the extension has a pantiled roof. There is a red brick end stack at the west end of both the cottage and the extension. The building has one storey and an attic, with a two-unit plan that includes an open hall and a floored end bay to the east. The entrance, which has a porch, is located on the east side, and there is one ground floor casement window along with an eyebrow dormer window. Inside, the substantial timber frame includes wide braces that are trenched and nailed across the studs, and the roof features collar rafters. There is an inserted hall floor and a chimney with an inglenook hearth and niches.
Local climate
Ash Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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