Acre Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Acre Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-doorway-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Acre Cottage, Acre Road, Carlton, CB8 9LF
- OS grid reference
- TL 645 535
- Coordinates
- 52.15563, 0.40431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acre Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th and late 18th centuries. It has a brick front wall, a timber-frame construction which has been rendered, and a mansard roof covered in pantiles, with a red brick ridge stack. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and features two dormers. There are three windows on either side of the baffle entry doorway. At the east end is a single bay with a steeply pitched pantiled roof, likely dating from the 17th century.
Local climate
Acre Cottage 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- 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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