Brook Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Brook Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-lancet-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Farm Cottage, 2, Main Road, Little Gransden, SG19 3DN
- OS grid reference
- TL 273 543
- Coordinates
- 52.17304, -0.13874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farm Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the east side of Main Road, Little Gransden. The building is timber framed with plaster rendering on the plinth and a thatched roof at two ridge and eaves levels. It has an axial red brick ridge stack and a projecting end stack to the road, featuring two shafts linked at the capping. The cottage is a single range facing the road. The south elevation has two wood casements to each storey, with ground-floor casements on either side of the doorway. The north elevation contains two, three-light modern wood casements to each floor and a baffle entry doorway. A lower wing on the east side is contemporary, constructed with timber framing, rendering, and a thatched roof. This wing has modern openings.
Local climate
Brook 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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