The Old House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- salt-moat-jackdaw
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Old House, Church Lane, CB2 9LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 444 549
- Coordinates
- 52.1741, 0.11061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a late 16th-century building with a 17th-century northeast wing, located on Church Lane in Trumpington. It was restored in 1924 when the southwest wing was added. The structure is made of red brick and features a tiled roof. It has two storeys with crow-stepped gables on the end walls, which are topped with chimney stacks, and twin crow-stepped gables on the projecting wing at the back. There is a band between the storeys and at the foot of the gables. The upper windows have projecting labels, and most of the windows retain their old oak frames and mullions. The later lower wing on the south side is a single storey with an attic, featuring two dormers, modern casement windows, and a mansard roof. Inside, there is an early 17th-century staircase and several 17th-century doors with pedimented doorways.
Local climate
The Old House 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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