Homeland Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Homeland Cottages
- WRENN ID
- eastward-loggia-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Homeland Cottages, 1 and 3, Church Lane, Elsworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 318 635
- Coordinates
- 52.25436, -0.06992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Homeland Cottages are 17th-century cottages located on Church Lane in Elsworth. They are timber framed and plastered, with tarred brick foundations and thatched roofs that are half hipped to the west. The cottages are one storey with an attic and are arranged in an L-plan. The west-facing elevation features two boarded doors, two three-light horizontal sliding sash windows, and one casement dormer window.
Local climate
Homeland Cottages 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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