Grassey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Grassey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-hinge-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grassey Cottage, 21, Green End, Fen Ditton, CB5 8SX
- OS grid reference
- TL 482 607
- Coordinates
- 52.22506, 0.16839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grassey Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the west side of Fen Ditton Green End. It features a timber-framed structure with gault brick casing on the front elevation and weatherboarded gables. The roof is half-hipped and made of corrugated iron, with a tall local brick ridge stack. The cottage is two storeys high and includes a rear outshut and a lean-to on the north side.
On the first floor, there are two horizontal sliding sash windows with flush frames and one small window. The ground floor has two horizontal sliding sash windows set within segmental brick arches. There is a boarded door to the left of the center and a blocked doorway to the right.
Local climate
Grassey Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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