Burford Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House. 1 related planning application.

Burford Farmhouse

WRENN ID
upper-steeple-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
Burford Farmhouse, High Street, Hildersham, CB21 6BU
OS grid reference
TL 544 484
Coordinates
52.11238, 0.25379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Burford Farmhouse is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to the 17th century, with a later 17th or early 18th century addition, and 19th and 20th century alterations. The construction is timber-framed and plastered, with a brick and flint plinth, and painted exterior. It has plain tiled hipped roofs. The building originally comprised three units, with a projecting wing added to the east, creating a north-south range to the rear. A tall square ridge stack and a T-shaped rear stack, partly plastered, are prominent features.

The east elevation has a coved plastered cornice. The main entrance is situated in the angle between the main range and the wing, featuring 20th-century double-glazed panelled doors beneath a shallow flat roof supported on console brackets. A similar garden door is to the left. Ground floor windows are flush-framed twelve-paned hung sashes, with four matching windows on the first floor.

The interior retains largely 19th-century details, including exposed stop-chamfered ceiling beams in the rear wing. An 18th-century cupboard, panelled with fluted pilasters, is found in the south-west room.

Local climate

Burford Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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