Poplar Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Farmhouse.

Poplar Hall

WRENN ID
sleeping-frieze-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Poplar Hall, Horningsea Road, Fen Ditton
OS grid reference
TL 485 613
Coordinates
52.2305, 0.17325
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Poplar Hall is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, featuring a plastered plaque that indicates it was repaired in 1905. The building is timber-framed with rendered margins around rough cast panels and has a plain tile roof adorned with some 17th century crested ridge tiles. It has two large red brick ridge stacks with round-headed recessed panels. The structure is two storeys high with attics and follows a hall and cross-wing plan, highlighted by a central gable on the facade. The gable features 17th century moulded barge boards.

The attic has three three-light casement windows, while the first floor has three larger casement windows. On the ground floor, there is a three-light hung sash window to the left of a 18th century six-panelled door, which is framed by a moulded wooden architrave and a bracketed hood with soffit panels. To the right of the door, there are two casement windows. Inside, the hall features stop-chamfered ceiling beams, a 17th century closed string oak staircase with splat balusters, and 17th century plank doors.

Local climate

Poplar Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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