Alma Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 Cottage.
Alma Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-column-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Alma Cottage, 13, Broad End, Elsworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 313 637
- Coordinates
- 52.25598, -0.07719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the west side of Broad End in Elsworth. It features a timber frame with plastering and a thatched roof, complete with a ridge stack and a plastered plinth. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. On the ground floor, there are two horizontal sliding sash windows and two boarded doors that have a reeded doorcase. Additionally, there are two horizontal sliding sash dormer windows. A 20th-century pantiled extension has been added to the west side of the building.
Local climate
Alma 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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