Princes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Princes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-pediment-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Princes Cottage, 22, High Street, Little Abington, CB21 6BG
- OS grid reference
- TL 533 492
- Coordinates
- 52.12006, 0.23802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Princes Cottage is a house that was formerly a public house, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of flint rubble with gault brick quoins and features a slated roof with brick gable end stacks. The building has two storeys and an outshut, with three 'bays' that include a central entrance, which has been recently blocked by the insertion of a window but still retains the original opening. There are two large horizontal sliding sash windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor, all set within segmental brick arches. A wrought iron inn sign is located at the right-hand corner. The property was known as The Princess (later Prince) of Wales public house, which opened by 1896 and closed around 1963. It is included for its group value.
Local climate
Princes Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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