Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-tracery-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, 41a, Streetly End, West Wickham, CB21 4RP
- OS grid reference
- TL 615 481
- Coordinates
- 52.10781, 0.3581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is an 18th-century cottage, with additions in the 20th century. Originally listed as No. 41 (Orchard Cottage). It is timber-framed, with rendered walls and a long straw thatched roof, half-hipped to gable ends. The cottage has an L-shaped plan, with a wing extending from the main range. It is a single storey with an attic. The front wall has three 20th-century casement windows, and a doorway is located within a thatched porch that sits between the main range and the crosswing. A modern wing has been added to the west end of the building.
Local climate
Walnut Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2019
- 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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