Highway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Highway Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-entrance-fern
- 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
- Highway Cottage, 65, Chishill Road, Heydon, SG8 8PN
- OS grid reference
- TL 430 395
- Coordinates
- 52.03602, 0.08347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highway Cottage is a late 17th or early 18th century cottage located on the east side of Heydon Chishill Road. It is timber-framed with roughcast render and has a thatched roof, half-hipped to the right. A rectangular planned red brick ridge stack rises from the roof. The cottage is rectangular with a four-unit plan, and has one storey and an attic. A 20th-century closed porch now fronts the entrance on the right-hand side. There are three ground floor windows with glazing bars, along with one horizontal sliding sash window. Two eyebrow casement dormer windows light the attic space. Inside, the exposed floor frames feature light scantling and chamfered beams. A hearth is present with a mantel beam and two niches, each with shaped heads.
Local climate
Highway 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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