Glebe House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Glebe House
- WRENN ID
- still-latch-honey
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Glebe House, Shingay Cum Wendy
- OS grid reference
- TL 323 476
- Coordinates
- 52.11107, -0.06933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glebe House, formerly known as The Wendy, is a house that was once the rectory, built by Thomas Windsor around 1828. It features a later 19th-century service wing and porch. The house is timber-framed and plastered, designed to resemble masonry joints, and has hipped slate roofs along with two gault brick stacks and a gault brick plinth.
The main range is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay facade, while the three-storey service range is set back to the north-east. The eaves are deep and panelled. The closed porch has a semi-elliptical plan, featuring a glazed door and fanlight, reeded pilasters, and a moulded cornice. There are two ground floor and three first floor segmental bay windows, all with reeded architraves and pointed glazing bars in the upper lights. The service wing has windows with pointed arches and fixed lights above casement windows. A panelled side door is flanked by pointed arched sidelights.
Inside, the house boasts reed moulded doorcases with corner bosses and moulded panelled doors. There are fluted pilastered archways leading to the passage and blind arches at the passage doorways. An open string staircase and original chimney pieces are present, along with Tuscan columns in the side passage of the drawing room, which has large double doors leading to the dining room. The rear elevation features garden casements.
Local climate
Glebe 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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
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