71, Abbey Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage.

71, Abbey Street

WRENN ID
slow-loft-woodpecker
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
71, Abbey Street, Ickleton
OS grid reference
TL 490 435
Coordinates
52.07008, 0.17264
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 71 Abbey Street is a cottage that dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with plain tiled and pantiled roofs. The building has two storeys, along with a single storey rear wing. Notable features include a plastered plinth and a coved eaves cornice. The entrance boasts an 18th-century raised and fielded panelled door with a sealed window above it. There are two horizontal sliding sash windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor. This building was formerly known as the White Horse Inn.

Local climate

71, Abbey Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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