Danesbury House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Danesbury House
- WRENN ID
- night-loggia-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Danesbury House, 21, High Street, Melbourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 386 449
- Coordinates
- 52.08573, 0.02156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Danesbury House is a house, likely dating from the early 18th century and restored around 1984. It is timber-framed and has a plaster render, with a steeply pitched tiled roof and a rebuilt ridge stack. The house follows a three-bay lobby-entry plan. The upper floor has three small-paned casement windows, with a doorway situated opposite the stack. A 19th-century kitchen addition, single-celled with a tiled roof, extends to the left.
Inside, the house features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The main structure comprises three bays, a narrower lobby entry, and a firebay. Abutting hearths are present in the centre room and parlour. The roof is a clasped side purlin roof with Queen struts to the principal rafters.
Local climate
Danesbury 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 97% 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, more than 50% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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
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.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings