Oak Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage.
Oak Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-spindle-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Tree Cottage, 35, West End, Whittlesford
- OS grid reference
- TL 467 478
- Coordinates
- 52.10957, 0.14144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with a 19th-century extension. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a half hipped thatched roof, along with clay bat and painted brick quoins and dressings, and a slated roof. The building has one storey and an attic, as well as two storeys. There are two entrances with panelled doors, three four-paned hung sash windows, and one horizontal sliding sash dormer window.
Local climate
Oak Tree 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% 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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