6, High Ditch Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage.
6, High Ditch Road
- WRENN ID
- young-ashlar-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 6, High Ditch Road, Fen Ditton
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 602
- Coordinates
- 52.21997, 0.17406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 High Ditch Road is a 17th-century cottage constructed with a timber frame, featuring plastered and painted brick. The roof is thatched with long straw, and there are plain tiles on the outshut, with a chimney stack located on the right side. The building has one storey and an attic, with a ridge stack on the left side. It includes three gabled casement windows and five ground floor windows that have glazing bars. There are also two boarded doors.
Local climate
6, High Ditch Road 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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