Jesters is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Jesters
- WRENN ID
- rough-nave-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Jesters, 9, Duck End, Girton
- OS grid reference
- TL 420 618
- Coordinates
- 52.23663, 0.07873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jesters is a cottage that dates from before 1811 and has a mid-20th century rear wing. It features a timber frame that is rendered, with a brick gable end and a long straw thatch roof. The roof has a stack that was partially rebuilt at the junction of the front range and the rear wing. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and includes two dormers, one of which is blocked. There are two hung sash windows with small panes on either side of the doorway leading to the central room. Inside, the wall framing is concealed, and there are slender joists along with an inglenook hearth lintel. The history of the cottage can be traced through the Cotton Estate Map from 1811, which is held in the Cambridge University Library's Cambridgeshire Collection.
Local climate
Jesters 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
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