The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- swift-plaster-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Limes, 333, High Street, Cottenham, CB24 8TX
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 671
- Coordinates
- 52.28299, 0.12253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a house dating from the mid 17th century, with early 19th century windows and extensions. It has a timber frame that is plaster rendered, topped with a steeply pitched tiled roof and features a grey gault brick ridge stack and an end stack. The building has a single range plan consisting of three bays.
On the first floor, there are three early 19th century hung sash windows, each with sixteen panes, positioned with their heads flush against the eaves. The ground floor has three similar windows and a doorway in the center bay, which features a reeded doorcase adorned with jewelled boss enrichment. The back door is an original feature from the early 17th century.
To the left of the main house is an early 19th century service outbuilding made of local gault brick, which has a tiled roof. At the rear, there is also a single-storey outbuilding. Inside, the house includes a sealed inglenook hearth in the center room, with a mantel supported by small caryatids. The lintel of the hearth exhibits the same stop chamfer as the main beam.
Local climate
The Limes 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- 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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