Sheads House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Sheads House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-turret-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sheads House, 7, High Street, Whittlesford, CB22 4LT
- OS grid reference
- TL 472 481
- Coordinates
- 52.11252, 0.14885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sheads House is a cottage dating to the 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 19th century. It is a timber-framed building, now plastered with painted brick, and has plain tiled roofs. It features an end stack on the left-hand side and two ridge stacks. The original L-shaped plan has been extended and incorporates a wide, low-pitched porch with a 19th-century door. There are two ground-floor and three first-floor windows, each with nine panes in sash windows, alongside one casement dormer window.
Local climate
Sheads House 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 1995
- 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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