Lena is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Lena
- WRENN ID
- tattered-spire-storm
- 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
- Lena, 42, Abbey Street, Ickleton, CB10 1SS
- OS grid reference
- TL 491 436
- Coordinates
- 52.07082, 0.17435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lena is a cottage and shop, dating from the 17th century, with alterations and rebuilding in the 19th century and around 1938. Originally three cottages and a shop, it is now two cottages. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. It has a 20th-century brick plinth, a gault brick ridge stack to the left, and a red brick rectangular ridge stack to the right. The building is one storey high, with two boarded doors and four casement windows featuring glazing bars. The interior reveals some exposed posts with curved braces to cambered tie beams. These cottages, including numbers 46, 48, and 50, were originally Charity Cottages. A report from 1949 (RCHM Report 1949) documents the building.
Local climate
Lena sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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