Willow Way Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Willow Way Cottages
- WRENN ID
- fossil-panel-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willow Way Cottages, 9 and 11, North End, Meldreth, SG8 6NR
- OS grid reference
- TL 375 465
- Coordinates
- 52.10052, 0.00668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Way Cottages are a row of cottages that have been converted into two dwellings. They date from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with an early 19th-century extension. The cottages are timber-framed, plaster rendered, and topped with a long straw thatch roof. There is a ridge stack made of red brick and two later grey brick stacks, likely from the 17th century. The cottages face the road and are one storey high with an attic, featuring six dormers and small pane casements from the mid to late 20th century. There are two doorways, one of which leads into a modern brick porch that serves the original lobby entry. The early 19th-century extension at the end is probably made of clunch and is thatched. Inside, there are inglenook fireplaces and a 19th-century corner hearth. The original cottage had a three-bay layout with a lobby entry, and in the early 19th century, it was extended away from the road and divided into five tenements.
Local climate
Willow Way 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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