Folly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Folly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-rubblework-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Folly Cottage, 92, Meldreth Road, Whaddon, SG8 5RP
- OS grid reference
- TL 354 462
- Coordinates
- 52.09839, -0.02393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Cottage is a cottage that dates from the late medieval period, with rebuilding and extensions from the late 17th century, and renovations in the 20th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a thatched roof that is half hipped on the right side. The cottage is single storey with an open hall and one storey and attic end bays. It has a three-unit plan with a lobby entry leading to an inserted stack that contains two hearths. The entrance has a boarded door, and there are seven casement windows of various sizes, all with glazing bars. The ridge stack has been rebuilt. Inside, the cottage showcases exposed timber framing and floor frames, including some reused timbers. The end bays have side purlin roofs, while the hall roof is plaster ceiled.
Local climate
Folly 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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