The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-parapet-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, 14, Market Lane, Linton
- OS grid reference
- TL 559 467
- Coordinates
- 52.09728, 0.27458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber-framed and plastered construction with a long straw thatched roof. It has a red brick end stack, which is partly painted, and a ridge stack located to the right of the center. The building is one storey with an attic and has a three-unit plan. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed panelled door, flanked by two horizontal sliding sash windows and one fixed light window. Additionally, there are two eyebrow dormer windows in the roof.
Local climate
The 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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- 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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