5, The Grip is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
5, The Grip
- WRENN ID
- quiet-tallow-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 5, The Grip, Linton, CB21 4NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 559 465
- Coordinates
- 52.09495, 0.27509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5, The Grip is a late 16th-century cottage. It is timber-framed and now plastered, with modern pargetting decoration. The roof is thatched, with a tall red brick ridge stack. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and has a rear outshut. There is a boarded door on the left-hand side, and three ground-floor windows, two of which have horizontal sliding sashes. A single eyebrow dormer window is also present.
Local climate
5, The Grip 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% 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:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 6 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
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