Riverside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage.

Riverside Cottage

WRENN ID
plain-joist-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Riverside Cottage, 7, Green End, Fen Ditton
OS grid reference
TL 481 605
Coordinates
52.22357, 0.16788
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Riverside Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the early 14th century, with additions and alterations from the 16th century, 18th century, and around 1920. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, with painted brick elements. The roofs are covered with long straw thatch and plain tiles, and there is a local brick ridge stack. The cottage has one storey and an attic.

The building features an aisled hall with two bays, and there are two additional bays to the east, along with a demolished bay or cross-wing to the south. The arcade plates and unjowled posts are still visible, showing evidence of passing braces and one truncated brace in the north-west post. There are late 16th-century inserted floors and a stack. A single-storey extension to the west, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, replaces one bay or cross-wing of the aisled hall. The brace in the north-west post indicates that the arcade may have continued as an internal wall to an enclosed part of the aisle or cross-wing.

On the north elevation, there is a tall gabled facade with a dormer window featuring horizontal sliding sashes, two ground floor casement windows, and a boarded door. Inside, there are two inglenook hearths with chamfered mantel beams, as well as cased and exposed main timbers of the aisled hall. The hall also has chamfered floor joists.

Local climate

Riverside 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 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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