Barbary Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. A C18 Cottage.
Barbary Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-chimney-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Barbary Cottage, Common Road, Weston Colville
- OS grid reference
- TL 628 520
- Coordinates
- 52.14239, 0.37834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barbary Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century, with an extension added at the southeast end in the 19th century. It features a timber frame, rendered exterior, and long straw thatch roofing, with a ridge stack. The cottage is one storey with an attic. The north wall has two 19th-century cast iron casement windows and one small wooden casement window. There are doorways at the front and rear, with boarded doors located in the center bay. A lean-to is present at the rear, and there is one gable dormer. The east end has two additional bays added in the 19th century, which are framed, rendered, and covered with pantiles. Inside, the attic covers only one bay and includes iron ladder treads set into the chimney breast, along with an inglenook hearth and slender framing.
Local climate
Barbary Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings