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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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