The Beristead is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1988. House.
The Beristead
- WRENN ID
- deep-cornice-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Beristead, 25, Station Road, Haddenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 464 758
- Coordinates
- 52.36145, 0.14913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beristead is a house built in 1710, with a front wall casing and roof raised in the late 18th to early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with Haddenham gault brick used in Flemish bond for the front wall. The roof is a mansard style, covered with plain tiles and features gault brick patterned tumbling at the parapet gable ends, supported by kneelers that hold two urns. The house has a ridge and end stacks and is one storey with attics, including three dormers. The ground floor has three openings with segmental arches, all from the 19th century, and two doorways that are now blocked.
Inside, the house was subdivided in the late 18th or early 19th century, and the openings reflect this change. There is an inglenook hearth at the north end with a lintel carved with the initials WW and the date 1710. This same room features stop-chamfered main beams and joists that are laid flat. The other two rooms also have stop-chamfered main beams. A smaller hearth, also dating from 1710, has an opening under a segmental arch made of two header courses.
Local climate
The Beristead 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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