Brock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Brock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-cornice-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brock Cottage, 8, Brockley Road, Elsworth, CB23 4JS
- OS grid reference
- TL 315 634
- Coordinates
- 52.25345, -0.07356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brock Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located on Brockley Road in Elsworth. It features a timber frame with plastered and painted brick replacement and has a thatched roof. The building is one storey with an attic and originally had a three-unit plan, which was subdivided into two cottages in the 19th century.
The exterior includes three horizontal sliding sash windows and a closed porch that is weatherboarded and thatched, leading to a panelled door. There is also one horizontal sliding sash dormer window. The cottage has a 17th-century ridge stack positioned to the right of center and a 19th-century stack on the left side.
Inside, the cottage boasts two inglenook hearths and two pine axial beams that are ovolo moulded and chamfered, along with 18th-century and 19th-century doors.
Local climate
Brock Cottage 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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