Horse Shoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1975. Cottage.
Horse Shoe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-gutter-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Horse Shoe Cottage, 32, High Street, Guilden Morden
- OS grid reference
- TL 278 436
- Coordinates
- 52.07624, -0.13617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horse Shoe Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, with later additions and 19th-century remodelling. It features a timber frame that is roughcast rendered, topped with a plain tiled roof. The cottage has a ridge stack located to the left of centre. It stands two storeys high and has two ground floor casement windows and three first floor casement windows, along with a glazed door on the right side. Inside, the cottage reveals an exposed timber frame and floor frames, with rebuilt 19th-century hearths.
Local climate
Horse Shoe Cottage 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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