The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, 56, High Street, Bourn, CB23 2TR
- OS grid reference
- TL 325 564
- Coordinates
- 52.18998, -0.0626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage with alterations likely made in the early 19th century, possibly by Repton, and a 20th-century addition. It is timber-framed with rough cast render and a plastered plinth, and has thatched roofs with two red brick gable end stacks. The cottage is one storey high with attics, arranged in an L-shaped plan. The walls were raised in the 19th century on the original east-west range, and the gable to the west was rebuilt with an octagonal shafted stack and an applied timber frame. A 20th-century lean-to addition features a half-glazed door, two ground floor casement windows, and two casement dormer windows. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
The Old 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 2011
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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