Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
sacred-hinge-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage, 61, Fowlmere Road, Heydon, SG8 8PZ
OS grid reference
TL 430 404
Coordinates
52.04424, 0.08464
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, featuring a red brick end wall on the southeast side. The cottage has a half hipped thatched roof with a ridge stack located to the right of the center. It is one storey high with an attic and has a three-unit plan. The main entrance, located to the left of the stack, has been sealed. There are four ground floor 20th-century casement windows that have replaced the original horizontal sliding sash windows, along with one eyebrow dormer window and a 20th-century glazed door to the right. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered ceiling beams and rafters laid flat.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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