White Horse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Inn, house. 1 related planning application.
White Horse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-wattle-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Inn, house
- Address
- White Horse Cottage, 26, May Street, Great and Little Chishill, SG8 8SN
- OS grid reference
- TL 421 386
- Coordinates
- 52.02776, 0.07099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Horse Cottage is a late 17th-century inn, later converted into a house, located on the west side of May Street, Chishill. The building comprises two ranges, with 19th and 20th-century alterations. It is timber-framed with clay battening and a rendered finish, featuring a high brick plinth. The right-hand range has a thatched roof, while the left-hand range has a low-pitched slated roof. A plastered red brick stack is positioned at the junction between the two ranges. There are four three-light casement windows on the ground floor and four smaller windows on the first floor. Two 20th-century doors are situated to the left and right. The range on the right may be older, including a rear outshut. The range on the left is raised over a cellar, with an external entrance from the street. The interior features chamfered cross beams and axial beams, back-to-back hearths with a baking oven, and an inglenook.
Local climate
White Horse Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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