Comberton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1959. A Late C16 to early C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Comberton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-corridor-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1959
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Comberton Farmhouse, Orleton, SY8 4HE
- OS grid reference
- SO 497 677
- Coordinates
- 52.30564, -2.73909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Comberton Farmhouse is a timber-frame farmhouse dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with a later 18th-century remodelling and some restoration work in the 1980s. It has a slate roof and rendered infill panels. The house is arranged in an L-shape, with a cross-wing projecting to the south and another range offset to the east. A lobby entrance is positioned against a stack in the middle of the east range.
The north front has two storeys with a gable-lit attic to the cross-wing. The first floor has six windows: two 3-light casements to the left, a fixed casement, and two 4-light casements. The ground floor has five windows: two 3-light casements and three 4-light casements. The cross-wing has a rubble underbuild, while the bay nearest the end of the other range is jettied on scroll brackets. The entrance, to the right of centre in the subsidiary range, is protected by a shallow-pitched gabled canopy made of plain wooden posts and has a 6-panel door.
The timber framing is five square panels high, and the cross-wing gable features a slightly projecting tie-beam with two collars and vertical struts. The interior of the cross-wing includes traces of floral wall-paintings in the north room on the first floor, along with several triangular doorheads and exposed chamfered and stopped-ceiling beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Comberton Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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