71, Wimpole Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1977. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
71, Wimpole Road
- WRENN ID
- blind-arch-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 71, Wimpole Road, Barton, CB23 7AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 408 550
- Coordinates
- 52.17603, 0.05838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century cottage, although it may have earlier origins. It's timber-framed and was originally rendered with a steeply pitched roof, now covered with cement tiles. The roof has a red brick ridge stack, and the upper courses have been rebuilt. The cottage was originally planned with three bays and a lobby entry, and later converted into two dwellings, retaining the original entrance opposite the stack. A single, narrower bay to the left was used as a dairy. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with a 20th-century gable dormer. The windows are two 19th-century horizontal sliding sashes, and there are two doorways. Inside, the ceilings feature stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
71, Wimpole Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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