Hope Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1976. Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
Hope Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rubblework-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1976
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Hope Cottages, 2-8, Hall Lane, Great and Little Chishill, SG8 8SN
- OS grid reference
- TL 422 388
- Coordinates
- 52.02943, 0.07211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These nine cottages form a planned group of two ranges linked together. They were erected in 1843, as indicated by a glazed panel above the entrance door of the corner cottage, which is semi-circular in plan. The cottages are timber-framed and have plastered or roughcast external rendering. They have hipped slate roofs and five rectangular chimneys rising from the ridge. The cottages are two storeys high and each has a two-unit plan with two heated rooms and a rear staircase to the first floor. The front doors are boarded, with the exception of numbers 3 and 5, which have 20th-century replacements; each door has a small, bracketed hood above it. There are ten casement windows on each of the ground and first floors. Each cottage has a woodshed and privy, which enclose a communal courtyard. The plot to the east of the cottages was originally divided into nine strips, or allotments, separated by narrow baulks. The cottages were restored in 1979.
Local climate
Hope Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 — 22 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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