The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-lime-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 53, High Street, Guilden Morden, SG8 0JR
- OS grid reference
- TL 278 435
- Coordinates
- 52.07577, -0.13597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with renovations and additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame and is roughcast rendered. The original thatched roof was replaced with a plain tiled roof that is hipped to the left after a fire. There is a gable end stack on the right and a rebuilt ridge stack on the left. The house is two storeys tall and originally had a three-unit plan, with a modified 19th-century rear outshut. The main entrance is located in the rear outshut. There are four ground floor and five first floor 20th-century casement windows with leaded lights. Inside, there are two open hearths, a mantel beam above one hearth, and the floor frame timbers are chamfered with enriched stops. The interior also features a 19th-century tiled floor.
Local climate
The 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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