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

Chishill Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Chishill Cottage, 17, Hall Lane, Great and Little Chishill, SG8 8SG
OS grid reference
TL 423 387
Coordinates
52.02887, 0.07401
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chishill Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early 16th century, with additions and alterations made in the late 17th or early 18th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It has one storey and an attic, featuring a rectangular red brick ridge stack and an end stack on the left side. A 20th-century porch has been added at the original lobby entry position.

There are six windows on the ground floor, which include two horizontal sliding sashes and one 18th-century three-light iron casement window with leaded lights. A garden door is located on the left side. The cottage has two dormer windows. Originally designed with a three-unit plan, it includes an open hall made up of two timber-framed bays and a collar-rafter roof. The structure was extended by two units on the left and one on the right in the late 17th century, with inserted and replacement floors in the original building.

Inside, there is an inserted stack in the hall with two hearths, each featuring ingle nooks and shaped heads to two niches. The kitchen hearth is located in the end room, which has a blocked opening for a baking oven. The ceiling beams are chamfered.

Local climate

Chishill 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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