Crown House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
Crown House
- WRENN ID
- dim-iron-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Crown House, 12, High Street, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth, SG8 5NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 331 439
- Coordinates
- 52.07753, -0.05794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crown House is an early 19th-century house and shop. It is timber-framed and has been plastered, with a visible plastered plinth. The roof is tiled, and there is a brick stack on the left-hand side. The building includes a rear outshut and a single-storey shop to the west gable. The front elevation features a central glazed-panelled door topped by a rectangular fanlight, flanked by two canted hung sash windows. Above, there are three sixteen-paned flush-framed hung sash windows.
Local climate
Crown 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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