Brown Penny 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.
Brown Penny Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-nave-dale
- 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
- Brown Penny Cottage, 40, West Wickham Road, Balsham
- OS grid reference
- TL 591 505
- Coordinates
- 52.1302, 0.32391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th centuries, with a 19th-century addition and late 20th-century renovation. It is timber-framed with a rendered exterior and a long-straw thatched roof. There are red brick stacks at the north end and between the original wall and the 19th-century extension at the south end. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. The front elevation is modern with two casement windows. The north end features two 19th-century casement windows and a doorway. A rendered and pantiled 19th-century addition is present.
Local climate
Brown Penny 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- 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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