15 and 17, High Ditch Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
15 and 17, High Ditch Road
- WRENN ID
- floating-pedestal-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 15 and 17, High Ditch Road, Fen Ditton, CB5 8TE
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 602
- Coordinates
- 52.22004, 0.17459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These two cottages, now combined into a single dwelling, were built in the early 18th century. They have a timber-frame construction and are plastered with painted local brick foundations. The roof is thatched, with two brick ridge stacks. The front has three gabled dormer windows of varying sizes, featuring glazing bars, and two boarded doors. According to the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for East Cambridgeshire, page 61, the site was surveyed on 20 (date unspecified).
Local climate
15 and 17, High Ditch Road 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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