South Ford is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
South Ford
- WRENN ID
- low-paling-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- South Ford, 161, Caxton End, Bourn, CB23 2ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 317 571
- Coordinates
- 52.1968, -0.0739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century cottage located on Caxton End in Bourn. It is timber-framed and has been plastered, with hipped thatched roofs. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and includes a single-storey range to the west. There are three boarded doors and three windows, one of which is a horizontal sliding sash window. A casement dormer window is also present, and a red brick ridge stack rises from the roof. The cottage is documented in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments’ West Cambs volume, on page 26, entry 34.
Local climate
South Ford 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 — 5 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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