Moss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Moss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-tracery-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
- Moss Cottage, Long Lane, Fowlmere, SG8 7TA
- OS grid reference
- TL 419 460
- Coordinates
- 52.09432, 0.07129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moss Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations and an addition from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and roughcast rendered, topped with a thatched roof that is half hipped to the right. The cottage has one storey and an attic, forming an L-shape. There is a ridge stack to the right of the centre and a stack at the junction with the rear wing. The main entrance, located in a lean-to porch at the south angle with the 19th-century extension, features a boarded door to the left of centre, along with three ground floor windows of various sizes that have glazing bars. The 19th-century panelled door is also part of the entrance.
Local climate
Moss 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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