Sextons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage.
Sextons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-jade-indigo
- 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
- Sextons Cottage, High Street, Fowlmere, SG8 7SJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 420 457
- Coordinates
- 52.09197, 0.07261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sextons Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is possibly constructed with clay bat plaster and features a thatched roof that is half hipped to the south. The cottage has a red brick ridge stack and is one storey with an attic. It has a three-unit plan and includes a 20th-century flat-roofed extension at the south end. The exterior has three 20th-century casement windows and one small window, along with a boarded door on the north side.
Local climate
Sextons 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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