Tudor Mede is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Tudor Mede
- WRENN ID
- eastward-wicket-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tudor Mede, 30, High Street, Orwell, SG8 5QN
- OS grid reference
- TL 364 504
- Coordinates
- 52.13518, -0.00817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tudor Mede is a cottage dating from the 15th century, featuring an open hall and an east crosswing. It has been renovated and extended. The building is timber framed, with plaster rendering and a reed thatch roof. The roof has a half hipped design at the west end of the hall and is hipped at the south end of the crosswing. There is a 17th-century inserted red brick stack. The layout consists of a two-bay open hall and a crosswing, with one storey and an attic in the hall, which includes a large modern dormer. The ground floor has similar casement windows. The current doorway leads to what may have been the former cross passage between the hall and the crosswing. The crosswing is two storeys high. Inside, the open hall features a central truss with hollow moulded arch bracing to the tie beam, which originally had a crown-post. The inserted chimney and floor date from the 17th century. The crosswing retains its original ceiling, with joists laid flat and unmoulded, except for the leaf-stopped main beam.
Local climate
Tudor Mede 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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