Mackshill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Mackshill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-spandrel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mackshill Cottage, Caxton End, Bourn, CB23 2SX
- OS grid reference
- TL 319 574
- Coordinates
- 52.19993, -0.07085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mackshill Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located on the north side of Bourn Caxxton Road. It is constructed with a timber-frame and rough cast render, with a thatched roof. A rebuilt gault brick ridge stack is present. The original plan comprised three units, with a single-storey gabled extension to the west, possibly used as a dairy. A modern, weatherboarded gabled porch with a boarded door now provides access. The cottage has three 20th-century three-light casement windows and one casement dormer window. Inside, the interior features a large inglenook hearth, chamfered ceiling beams, and 19th-century boxed staircases.
Local climate
Mackshill 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2013
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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