Essex House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Essex House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-beam-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Essex House, 50, High Street, Milton, CB24 6DF
- OS grid reference
- TL 478 629
- Coordinates
- 52.24521, 0.16406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Essex House is a cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of painted brick and rendered, topped with a shallow mansard roof covered in plain tiles. The building features two ridge stacks and a gable end stack on the west side. It has one storey and an attic, with a dentil brick eaves cornice. The cottage includes four gabled dormer windows fitted with casements, and on the ground floor, there are six windows of various sizes, including two horizontal sliding sash windows. Additionally, there is a modern closed porch and two garden doors.
Local climate
Essex House 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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