14, Whittlesford Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Cottage.
14, Whittlesford Road
- WRENN ID
- quiet-cinder-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 14, Whittlesford Road, Little Shelford
- OS grid reference
- TL 454 515
- Coordinates
- 52.14313, 0.12392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 14 Whittlesford Road is a cottage dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of timber framing and clunch, topped with a thatched roof made of long straw. The cottage features a small ridge stack made of gault brick. The layout consists of two bays with a lobby entry and a gable end facing the road. It is one storey high with an attic. The entrance has a boarded door located opposite the stack, flanked by small horizontal sliding sashes that have panelled shutters. The gable end facing the road includes a horizontal sliding sash window with an original leaded light, situated above a later window.
Local climate
14, Whittlesford 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% 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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