Cobwebs is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Cobwebs
- WRENN ID
- solitary-render-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cobwebs, 27, High Street, West Wickham
- OS grid reference
- TL 614 493
- Coordinates
- 52.11899, 0.35658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cobwebs is a house located on the north-west side of High Street in West Wickham. It has origins dating back to the early 17th century, with reconstructions and additions made in the 18th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a brick front wall. It has a tiled, half-hipped roof that includes an early 17th-century ridge stack with grouped shafts set diagonally, as well as a southwest projecting end stack from around 1700. An addition from around 1800 forms an L-plan and the house is two storeys high with an attic.
The nearly symmetrical front elevation has two twelve-pane hung sash windows on the first floor and four similar windows on the ground floor, positioned on either side of the doorway. The doorway is framed by a flat hood and a moulded doorcase, both dating from around 1800. At the rear, the 1800 addition is constructed of brick and thatch, and is also one storey high with an attic. Inside, the entrance hall features an exposed moulded ceiling beam.
Local climate
Cobwebs 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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