Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Elm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-flint-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Elm Cottage, 3, Brockley Road, Elsworth, CB23 4JS
- OS grid reference
- TL 316 635
- Coordinates
- 52.254, -0.07343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located on the east side of Brockley Road in Elsworth. It is timber-framed, with plaster rendering and some replacement brickwork that has been painted. The roof is thatched, and there are end stacks. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. It features one sixteen-paned hung sash window, one twenty-paned hung sash window with panelled shutters, a four-panelled door, and a casement dormer window. This building has group value from the period.
Local climate
Elm 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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