Tosca Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Tosca Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-dormer-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tosca Cottage, 28, Horseheath Road, Linton
- OS grid reference
- TL 570 468
- Coordinates
- 52.09792, 0.29081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tosca Cottage is an early 17th-century cottage located on Horseheath Road in Linton. It features a timber-framed and plastered construction with a thatched roof that is hipped to the left. The building has one storey and an attic, originally designed with a three-unit lobby entry plan, which includes a slightly lower service end. The tall ridge stack has been rebuilt. There is a plastered plinth, and the main entrance, which is a 20th-century closed thatched porch, leads into the cottage. The ground floor has three three-light windows, and there is one dormer window. Inside, the cottage showcases exposed timber framing and floor frames, along with a pargetted panel decorated with a fleur de lys.
Local climate
Tosca Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
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