Thoresby is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Thoresby
- WRENN ID
- last-corner-moon
- 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
- Thoresby, 73, Common Road, Weston Colville, CB21 5NS
- OS grid reference
- TL 632 515
- Coordinates
- 52.13821, 0.38412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thoresby is a cottage located on Weston Colville Common Road in Weston Green. It has a rear wing that dates from the 15th to 16th century and a front range from the 17th century. The cottage is timber framed, rendered, and has a thatched half-hipped roof with a ridge stack. It is one storey high with an attic, featuring one gable dormer on the front. There is a small stairlight window and three enlarged casement openings at the ground floor.
Local climate
Thoresby 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
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