Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. A C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-tin-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage, 6, Water Lane, Melbourn, SG8 6AY
- OS grid reference
- TL 381 442
- Coordinates
- 52.07948, 0.01429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700. It features a timber frame, with lathe and plaster rendering, and a half-hipped reed thatch roof. The original red brick axial ridge stack adds to its character. The building has a single range plan and consists of three bays with a lobby entry. There are two late 20th-century casement windows on the first floor and two additional casements on either side of the doorway leading to the lobby entry.
Local climate
Old Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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