Durham Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Durham Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-tracery-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Durham Cottage, Church Street, Fen Drayton
- OS grid reference
- TL 340 681
- Coordinates
- 52.29488, -0.03576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Durham Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber frame with rough cast render and a half hipped thatched mansard roof. The building has a gault brick ridge stack and painted brick foundations. It is one storey with an attic and follows an original three-unit plan. The cottage has a four-panelled door on the right side, a half-glazed door, and a shop window on the left side. There is one ground floor horizontal sliding sash window, one hung sash window, and one horizontal sliding sash dormer window.
Local climate
Durham Cottage 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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