Giles Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Giles Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-quoin-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Giles Cottage, Royston Road, Litlington, SG8 0RG
- OS grid reference
- TL 314 424
- Coordinates
- 52.065, -0.08414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Giles Cottage is a late 17th or early 18th century cottage, renovated in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with plaster infill and has a pantiled roof. The house is one storey high with an attic, and its gable faces the street. A porch is located to the left of the entrance, with a glazed door to the right. There are two casement windows on the ground floor, along with two dormer windows with sloping roofs.
Local climate
Giles 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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