Dove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage.
Dove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-window-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dove Cottage, Common Road, Weston Colville
- OS grid reference
- TL 630 517
- Coordinates
- 52.1401, 0.38157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove Cottage is a cottage dated 1683, as indicated on a reset plaster panel in the dormer gable on the front wall. It is timber framed, plaster rendered with an incised design that imitates ashlar, and features a thatched roof with a ridge stack. The cottage has three bays and is one storey high with an attic. There is one gable dormer and three ground floor 19th-century iron casements that have been reset in the front wall. The doorway is located in the centre bay. Inside, there has been some disturbance of the timber framing, but the original heavy ceiling joists are laid flat. There is a dog leg staircase with original vase-shaped splat balusters leading to the landing.
Local climate
Dove Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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