Rayes House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Rayes House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-groin-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rayes House, 103, High Street, Cheveley, CB8 9DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 683 610
- Coordinates
- 52.22224, 0.46354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rayes House is a house that was formerly the village school, dating from the early 16th century and altered in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with pebble dash render, while the rear wing is made of flint with brick dressings. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, and there are tall, early 19th-century patterned terracotta shafts on the ridge stack, along with a side stack on the left-hand gable. The building has two storeys and an original three-unit plan, with four gabled casement dormer windows and an open gabled porch. Inside, there is a substantial exposed timber frame with stop-chamfered cross-beams in the hall, where the joists are laid flat. A 19th-century stack and staircase are located in the original chimney bay.
Local climate
Rayes House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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