Horseshoe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Horseshoe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-soffit-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Horseshoe Cottage, 18, South Street, Comberton, CB23 7DZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 381 560
- Coordinates
- 52.18563, 0.01991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horseshoe Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, which has been extended and altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plaster rendered and has a longstraw thatched roof, which is half-hipped with an original axial ridge stack made of red brick. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with three horizontal sliding sash windows on the front wall, one of which is likely located where the original entrance was. The current doorway is situated in a mid-20th century extension at the rear of the building.
Local climate
Horseshoe 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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