Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- noble-cobalt-heath
- 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
- Walnut Tree Cottage, 17, High Street, Knapwell, CB23 4NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 333 626
- Coordinates
- 52.24559, -0.048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located on the west side of High Street, Knapwell. Originally timber-framed, the walls are now plastered with painted brick replacements. The roof is thatched, with a ridge stack. The cottage is a single storey and attic, with gable end leantos. A 20th-century door is located on the left-hand side; the original lobby entrance has been replaced with a window. There are four horizontal sliding sash windows. The interior features a large inglenook hearth with a sealed baking oven, stop-chamfered ceiling beams and floor joists, some of which have been replaced. The cottage was divided into two dwellings in the 19th century.
Local climate
Walnut Tree 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 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- 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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