Nuns Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage.
Nuns Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-lantern-jay
- 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
- Nuns Cottage, 25, West End, Whittlesford
- OS grid reference
- TL 468 479
- Coordinates
- 52.10996, 0.14316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nuns Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with alterations from the 19th century and renovations in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage has a rectangular red brick ridge stack and a gable end stack on the left side. It is one storey with an attic and features a lean-to extension on the right side. The entrance door is boarded, and there are five windows of various sizes, including two gabled dormer windows with casements made of plain tiles.
Local climate
Nuns 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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