Thornberry Hill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1974. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.

Thornberry Hill Cottages

WRENN ID
broken-chalk-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1974
Type
Cottages
Address
Thornberry Hill Cottages, Wimpole, SG8 0BT
OS grid reference
TL 339 516
Coordinates
52.14708, -0.0436
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A row of estate cottages dating to the 18th and 19th centuries. The cottages are built of red brick with a tiled, half-hipped roof, featuring a plain brick eaves cornice and three ridge stacks with projecting capping. A plat band runs between the two storeys. There are six hipped dormers with tiled cheeks, and a six-window front featuring recessed cross frame casement windows on both floors. A doorway has a boarded door sheltered by lean-to canopies supported on brackets. A row of similar brick cottages is depicted in a watercolour by Humfry Repton, illustrating his plans for the remodelling of the park in 1801. Repton’s survey map of 1801 also shows four semi-detached pairs of cottages.

Local climate

Thornberry Hill Cottages 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 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
  • 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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