Milestone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.

Milestone Cottage

WRENN ID
second-banister-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Milestone Cottage, 121, Ermine Street, Caxton
OS grid reference
TL 302 586
Coordinates
52.21106, -0.09538
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Milestone Cottage is a cottage that may date back to the 17th century, with its roof raised in the early 19th century. It is timber-framed and features 20th-century pargetted panels, topped with a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and a three-unit plan, with two ridge stacks and an end stack on the right side. There is a boarded door located to the left of the center, along with three horizontal sliding sash windows with small panes on the ground floor and two horizontal sliding sash windows on the first floor.

Local climate

Milestone 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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