Farmbuilding Range to Rear of Farmhouse at De Freville Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 2002. Farm buildings. 2 related planning applications.

Farmbuilding Range to Rear of Farmhouse at De Freville Farm

WRENN ID
night-finial-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 November 2002
Type
Farm buildings
Address
Farmbuilding Range to Rear of Farmhouse at De Freville Farm, High Green, Great Shelford
OS grid reference
TL 460 525
Coordinates
52.15205, 0.1336
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

De Freville Farm features a range of farm buildings dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. These structures are constructed with weather-boarded timber framing and stone, topped with plain-tile and pantile roofs, arranged in a Z plan. The section closest to the farmhouse is weather-boarded and has a pantile roof, with various doors and windows, and a lean-to facing the farmyard.

Inside the granary, there are three bays of tall panel framing supported by a 19th-century roof structure above the trusses. Adjacent to the granary is a three-bay barn that has a doorway at the inner angle. This barn is also weather-boarded and features a plain-tile roof. Inside, it has three bays of close-studded framing with cranked tension braces and a clasped purlin roof with curved windbraces.

At right angles to the barn is a stone barn made of flint with brick dressings and clunch, also topped with a plain-tile roof. It includes a door and a pitching door leading to the farmyard. The interior of the stone barn has a simple butt purlin roof with collars and coupled rafters.

This range of well-preserved farm buildings is an important part of the historic context of De Freville Farm and complements the farmhouse and the barn on the property.

Local climate

Farmbuilding Range to Rear of Farmhouse at De Freville Farm 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. De Freville Farmhouse Grade II 27 m
  2. Barn at De Freville Farm Grade II 46 m
  3. 21, High Green Grade II 67 m
  4. Four Mile House Grade II 122 m
  5. Great Shelford War Memorial Grade II 249 m
  6. Wall to Rear of Number 18 and Side of Number 16 Grade II 253 m
  7. Spanyards Grade II 302 m
  8. Maris Farmhouse Grade II 303 m
  9. 16, High Green Grade II 308 m
  10. 48, High Street Grade II 375 m