Owldom the Hermitage Water Meadow is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Water meadow, cottages.
Owldom the Hermitage Water Meadow
- WRENN ID
- weathered-newel-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Water meadow, cottages
- Address
- Owldom the Hermitage Water Meadow, Kings Mill Lane, Great Shelford
- OS grid reference
- TL 457 515
- Coordinates
- 52.14313, 0.1286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Owldom The Hermitage Water Meadow is a Grade II listed building located on Kings Mill Lane in Great Shelford. This early 19th-century structure originally served as a range of cottages for mill workers, along with warehousing, a granary, and a workshop at the southern end. It was restored in the mid-20th century. The building features a timber frame, is weatherboarded, and has a roof made of pantiles and thatch from long straw. There are red brick and grey gault brick stacks. The building is one storey high with attics and includes three original gable dormers that have horizontal sliding sashes with small panes. At the ground floor, there are four 20th-century casement windows. The southern cottage, which was originally the warehouse and granary, also has one storey and an attic, featuring a hoist opening in the roof and two cat-slide dormers. Additionally, there is a jettied wing at the rear that is framed, weatherboarded, and has a pantiled roof.
Local climate
Owldom the Hermitage Water Meadow sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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