Sombourne Cott is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Sombourne Cott
- WRENN ID
- heavy-niche-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sombourne Cott, 30, Church Street, Guilden Morden
- OS grid reference
- TL 278 440
- Coordinates
- 52.07981, -0.13586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sombourne Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that has undergone late 19th-century and 20th-century additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with roughcast rendering and painted brick. The cottage has a red brick gable end stack and roofs that are thatched and covered with asbestos slates. It is one storey with an attic. The original section facing the street includes a four-panelled door located to the right of centre, a 20th-century casement window, and an eyebrow dormer window with casements.
Local climate
Sombourne Cott 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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