The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. A C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-flint-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Cardinals Green, Horseheath, CB21 4QX
- OS grid reference
- TL 618 463
- Coordinates
- 52.09156, 0.36098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a 18th-century cottage located in Horseheath at Cardinals Green. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered and topped with long straw thatch. The cottage has an external stack at the south end and is one storey high with an attic. There are small 19th-century casement windows, with two located on the east wall and one in the north gable end. A modern lean-to has been added to the north side.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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