Victoria Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.

Victoria Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
frozen-alcove-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Victoria Farm Cottage, 1, Main Street, Hardwick
OS grid reference
TL 375 587
Coordinates
52.21007, 0.01204
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Victoria Farm Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a thatched roof. The building has one storey and an attic, arranged in a three-unit plan. It includes two horizontal sliding sash windows and two small single-light windows, along with a half-glazed door on the right side. There is also one horizontal sliding sash dormer window. The cottage has a ridge stack made of painted brick located to the right of center, as well as an end stack on the left side. Inside, you will find a chamfered and jewel-stopped ceiling beam and a sealed inglenook hearth.

Local climate

Victoria Farm 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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