Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Park Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-shingle-curlew
- 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
- Park Cottage, 67, High Street, Balsham, CB21 4EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 584 508
- Coordinates
- 52.13296, 0.31392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage, originally two separate cottages, dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame, is plaster rendered, and has a long straw thatched roof with a half-hipped design. The building has an axial ridge stack and is one storey high with an attic. There are two dormers fitted with modern casements and three ground floor horizontal sliding sash windows from the 19th century, along with a doorway that has a boarded door. The original doorway may have led to a lobby opposite the stack. Inside, the cottage retains original abutting hearths and cupboard staircases.
Local climate
Park 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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