Croft House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Cottage.

Croft House

WRENN ID
knotted-belfry-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Croft House, 35, Pierce Lane, Fulbourn
OS grid reference
TL 515 563
Coordinates
52.18463, 0.21499
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Croft House is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a small 20th-century extension on the right side. The building is timber framed and plaster rendered, featuring infill partly made of clay bat at one gable end. It has a thatched roof made of combed wheat reed, with a grey gault brick ridge stack that has three shafts set diagonally. The original layout consists of a single range of three rooms, along with a narrower lobby entry and chimney bay. A kitchen was later added at the rear, but this has since been demolished. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows on the first floor, including one small closet opening and one in the hall bay, both in their original openings. The ground floor has three windows that replaced 18th- and 19th-century horizontal sliding sashes. There is a 20th-century gabled porch at the front.

Inside, the abutting inglenook hearths in the hall and parlour have been sealed, and the chamber above the parlour originally had a hearth. The framing features wide spaces between the studs and straight downward bracing. There is a single doorway between the hall and the service bay, separated by a partition wall. The main beam in the parlour is stop-chamfered.

Local climate

Croft House 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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