Clare Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Clare Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-steeple-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Clare Cottage, 16, Dolphin Lane, Melbourn, SG8 6AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 380 446
- Coordinates
- 52.08299, 0.01258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clare Cottage is a cottage that was originally part of a handed pair, dating from the early 19th century and renovated in the late 20th century. It features a clay bat construction on a brick and flint plinth, topped with a steeply pitched long straw thatch roof and a shared grey brick ridge stack. The cottage is two storeys high and has two three-light casements and two additional casements on the first floor. On the ground floor, one of the doorways has been blocked, while the other is concealed by a single-storey porch projection at the front. There is also a late 20th-century wing at the rear. Inside, there are two rebuilt small hearths.
Local climate
Clare 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- 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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