Toll Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Toll Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cloister-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Toll Gate Cottage, 2, Linton Road, Great Abington
- OS grid reference
- TL 533 487
- Coordinates
- 52.11618, 0.23779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toll Gate Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 18th century, with renovations in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, featuring thatched roofs and a 19th-century ridge stack. The cottage consists of two one-storey ranges that are possibly linked from the early 19th century. The range to the north-east has two units with the original entrance from the north-east, while the south-west range includes a half cellar. The main entrance, added in the 20th century, is located at the angle of the building and has a boarded door. There are two windows on the north-east elevation, one of which is an original 18th-century casement with leaded lights. The Cambridge road was turnpiked in 1765, leading to the construction of several toll gate cottages shortly thereafter. The ridge stack may have replaced an earlier framed chimney.
Local climate
Toll Gate Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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