Leigh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Leigh Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-merlon-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leigh Cottage, 2, Church Way, Haslingfield, CB23 1JR
- OS grid reference
- TL 404 521
- Coordinates
- 52.15001, 0.05135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh Cottage is a house that has been converted into three dwellings. It dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century and was enlarged in the mid to late 17th century. The building is timber-framed, plaster rendered, and has a longstraw thatched roof. A ridge stack from the late 17th to early 18th century has its upper courses rebuilt in 1831, as indicated by a dated stone.
The layout features a hall and crosswing plan, with a later single bay wing added to the front left, creating a half-H shape. The hall is two storeys high and has two 20th-century casements on the first floor. The original doorway is located at the end of the hall. The crosswing consists of three bays and is also two storeys tall, featuring two 20th-century casements on the gable end. The left-hand front wing is two storeys high as well and has two 20th-century windows.
The interior of the left-hand crosswing addition was inspected and shows 19th-century details in the cupboards and doors.
Local climate
Leigh 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- 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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