Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-tin-lichen
- 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
- Rectory Cottage, 12, Heydon Road, Great and Little Chishill, SG8 8SR
- OS grid reference
- TL 423 388
- Coordinates
- 52.03017, 0.07324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a pair of cottages, now combined into one dwelling, dating from the late 17th or 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. The building is timber-framed and has been plastered, featuring 20th-century panelled pargetting. It has a thatched roof, with a ridge stack located to the left of the centre and a painted brick gable end stack on the right. The cottage is one storey and attic, with a three-unit plan, and includes a late 19th-century gable-ended extension to the right. The front has four casement windows on the ground floor and three casement dormer windows in the attic. A 20th-century closed gabled porch with a plain tiled roof is present. The interior features exposed floor frames and the original timber-frame, with a partition removed between the north-east ground floor rooms. Two hearths are present; one has two niches with shaped heads. A baking oven remains, including a tell-tale brick for monitoring oven temperature.
Local climate
Rectory 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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