Sparrows Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. House.
Sparrows Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-oriel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sparrows Cottage, 44, High Street, Hinxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 495 451
- Coordinates
- 52.0849, 0.18192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sparrows Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a thatched roof that is hipped to the left side, with a side stack and a ridge stack located to the right of center. The building has two storeys and a rear outshut, following a three-unit plan. The main entrance has a 20th-century door and is accessed by steps. On the ground floor, there are two horizontal sliding sash windows and one nine-paned hung sash window to the right, with a similar arrangement of windows on the first floor. The cottage has a plastered plinth, and the interior reveals exposed timber framing and floor frames.
Local climate
Sparrows 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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