The Old House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-attic-indigo
- 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
- The Old House Cottage, 1, the Green, Duxford, CB22 4RH
- OS grid reference
- TL 478 461
- Coordinates
- 52.09349, 0.15724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House Cottage is a small cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, featuring some old pargetting, and has weatherboarding on the front elevation. The cottage has a thatched roof and a rectangular red brick ridge stack. There is a tarred brick plinth at the base. The building is one storey with an attic and follows a two-unit lobby entry plan. It has a boarded door and two horizontal sliding sash windows with shutters. The interior remains unaltered, including a staircase located in the northwest corner.
Local climate
The Old House Cottage 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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- No sale records on file
- 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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