59 and 61, Cottenham Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
59 and 61, Cottenham Road
- WRENN ID
- brooding-barrel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 59 and 61, Cottenham Road, Histon, CB24 9ES
- OS grid reference
- TL 437 643
- Coordinates
- 52.25879, 0.10508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 59 and 61 on Cottenham Road are a pair of cottages dating from the 17th century. They are timber framed with panelled plaster and feature a long straw thatch roof. The gables are made of painted brick, and there is weather boarding as well. A painted brick ridge stack is present. The cottages are one storey with an attic, featuring two casement dormer windows and four ground floor casement windows. There are two 19th-century reed-panelled doors, each with a 19th-century gabled porch that has barge boards and finials.
Local climate
59 and 61, Cottenham Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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