Corner Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Corner Cottage

WRENN ID
muffled-sentry-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Corner Cottage, 2, Fowlmere Road, Shepreth, SG8 6QG
OS grid reference
TL 393 479
Coordinates
52.11238, 0.03286
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Corner Cottage is a cottage that was subdivided in the early 19th century and is now a single dwelling. It dates from the early to mid-18th century and has been extended. The building features a clay bat on a flint plinth, with plaster rendered walls and a hipped long straw thatch roof. The original cottage consists of two bays and has been extended to the northwest and southeast. It is two storeys high and has three original wood frame casement windows with leaded lights and original casement fastenings on the first floor, along with two casement windows and two boarded doors on the ground floor. The extensions are from the late 18th or early 19th century and are also made of clay bat, plaster rendered, and thatched.

Inside, the flint plinth of the original gable end wall to the northwest is visible between the two ground floor rooms. There are small abutting fireplaces made of clay bat that are now partly sealed, suggesting they may have been reconstructed later. An original framed partition wall is associated with the staircase beside the stack. The cottage appears to have started as one dwelling, was converted into two in the early 19th century, and is now back to being one. The small abutting hearths and doors indicate a date around 1800. The roof structure is uniform in scantling, and evidence from the 1764 Estate Map supports the early to mid-18th century date.

Local climate

Corner 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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