The Dolls House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.
The Dolls House
- WRENN ID
- burning-merlon-birch
- 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
- The Dolls House, 41, Ermine Street, Caxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 303 582
- Coordinates
- 52.20703, -0.09329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dolls House is a cottage dating from the early 19th century. It is timber-framed with rough cast render and features a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and follows a two-unit, lobby entry plan. A central ridge stack is present. The cottage includes a four-panelled 19th-century door, two ground floor casement windows, and two first floor horizontal sliding sash windows.
Local climate
The Dolls House 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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