Pelham House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Villa.
Pelham House
- WRENN ID
- low-ashlar-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Pelham House, 216, High Street, Cottenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 450 676
- Coordinates
- 52.28807, 0.12453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pelham House is a villa built around 1850. It is constructed from local gault brick and features a slate roof, gabled ends, and original chimney pots. The building is two storeys tall and has a double fronted design. Its symmetrical facade includes three recessed hung sash windows, each with twelve panes. The central doorway is framed by a double recessed elliptical arch and is accessed by two steps leading up to a panelled door with a fanlight above. The property was associated with J.R. Ravensdale and is noted to be liable to flooding.
Local climate
Pelham House 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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